HPWombat is a browser hijacker that replaces the shortcuts for the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Yandex browsers so that they automatically open up a site affiliated with the developer. Due to the hijacked shortcuts, when a user opens their browser they will be passed through a series of redirects until they eventually get to a promoted site. At the time of this writing, the two sites that this malware is promoting are is http://internetgazeta.cardvrmirrorr.ru and http://traffic-media.co/mghtml/framehtml/c/1/t/603162.html.
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