In order for you to remove the Outbrain PUP completely from your PC, we strongly recommend that you follow the removal steps underneath this article. Furthermore, if you have a PUP running on your computer for a long time, it may expose you to further risks, including additional installation of unwanted software and redirects to dangerous sites. However, because of their nagging behavior and persistence, users often refer to them as viruses.

Virus sites that may directly infect your PC or Mac with a very dangerous malware.Īdware and potentially unwanted programs are not classified as computer viruses.

Scam sites that may display a web page, whose main idea is to trick you that there is an error with your computer and you must call a scammers’ phone number.

Their main goal however is to hijack your username and password.

Phishing pages that may pretend to be the official login pages of Facebook, Instagram, Gmail, etc.

These advertisements may hide a lot of different types of threats on your computer. The ads that may be shown as a result of Outbrain being added to your computer could be of the following types: Outbrain is the name of a browser hijacking software, whose main goal is to hijack your web browser and then begin to display advertisements on your computer.

The home page of the Outbrain virus looks like the following: It is often difficult to find how to software gets inside devices, because it uses shady tactics to remain as hidden as possible when being installed.

Downloaded from a shady website, pretending to be an update for a plugin.

Being bundled to the setups of other free apps, where it may be shown as a “free extra” or “optional offer” in the “Custom” or “Advanced” installer.

Just like other adware, such as the recently found, Chromnius and Search Tap, Outbrain Ads may have also ended up on your device via different well-known tactics, such as the following:

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