eFast Malware Hijacks Browser With Chrome Clone (malwarebytes.org)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:56AM from the but-it-looked-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report at The Stack that: eFast Browser, a new malicious adware which disguises itself as Google Chrome, has hijacked internet users' systems in an apparent effort to serve its own ads and harvest user activity to sell to third-party advertisers. It is able to mirror the aesthetics of Chrome as it uses the same source code, available across the open-source project Chromium. Once installed, eFast places ads across existing web pages, linking to third-party e-commerce sites or other malicious platforms.

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Re:LOL, w00t? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-20 01:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Personally, I'm not seeing much practical difference between this eFast browser and Google Chrome. The goals of the two products seem to be identical, though eFast is more pushy and less honest during the installation phase.