Webcake Affection Scenario Outline
Webcake is one of the products issued by Conduit. It comes in forms of adware, extension and browser hijacker. Supported by adware:Win32/WebCake is not necessarily indicating that webcake is totally an adware, in fact, it can also be browser hijacker that intercept traffic with some rogue means for its operators. Affected by Webcake, victims would encounter mess on browsers:
- Countless pop-up ads to cover some content on web sites.
- Random browser jacking and redirecting.
- Slow speed in displaying web pages.
- Browser freezes and occasional crash.
- Low internal storage is the most prominent symptom along with the browser mess.
Webcake Is Not Virus But Potentially Dangerous
Herein, we do not use the word virus to describe webcake, this is the answer to the question by some victims that “why Google allow webcake to hijack browser”. It is no more than a traffic exchanging site. To put it plain, operators use webcake to hijack traffic so as to raise the ranking in search engine.
