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Full Name:
Surfairy Websearch   Read More
Type: Adware
Also Known as: divago
SG Index: 2 [Explain]
Removal tools: List of products that detect/remove/protect against Surfairy:
  • IM, P2P control, malware prevention and web filtering in single appliance: Unified Security Gateway
  • Category Description: Program that delivers advertisements on your PC.

    Note that many websites have their own advertising, unrelated to adware.

    Adware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen and sometimes through text links or in integrated search results. Adware may or may not track personal information. It may also gather information anonymously or in aggregate only. Users should check the EULA and Privacy policy to ensure if the adware on their machines conforms to their standards.
    Official Description: Surfairy is an error-page hijacker implemented as an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object. When a domain name or 404 error is encountered, it redirects to a page specified by its controlling server www.divago.com.
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    Divago are now believed to be defunct, as this page is now itself an error page.

    Surfairy/Hlp was the original version; Surfairy/PP is an update with different filename and class ID. Comes bundled with new Packard Bell computers in Europe.
    Comment: Causes IE6 Service Pack 1 to be unable to print any page.

    The page that surfairy changes you to is listed as for sale. Legacy versions may still be in circulation.
       
    Manual removal: There should be an entry in the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option to remove Surfairy.
    Properties:
  •  Changes browser
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