Wallstreetwatch.co virus - How to remove

Wallstreetwatch.co, also known as Wall Street Watch is a malicious browser add-on designed to fit Google Chrome web browser. It was produced by Polarity Technologies LTD – a company behind many browser hijackers, such as Home.mapsnt.com and Search.searchgmfs.com. Even though it won’t bring you detrimental consequences, it still poses threat to your privacy and can be really irritating on behalf of user experience, therefore we have prepared this post – it is a complete guide on removing Wallstreetwatch.co virus from Google Chrome web browser.

Wall Street Watch as potentially unwanted add-on

A word “virus” might be a little bit too heavyweight while describing this tool, yet it would be hard to argue that it is unwanted. This tool is described as an easy way to access various popular finance sites and track stock markets. However, you won’t get what you are promised.

By installing this tool, which in fact is compatible only with Google Chrome web browser, you will give it permission to make changes on your web browser and also website that you are visiting:

What it really means is that your new tab page will be instantly set to Wallstreetwatch.co. Polarity Technologies LTD just create websites like this to build an audience and then make money out of it. The problem is that they do it using methods that are simply unfair.

The website itself is a simple search page with clean layout. However, search box featured there should not be used – all results will be generated using Yahoo search engine and in addition to that, your search queries might be tracked. So if some of your personal information slips in there, it might be possibly leaked and end up in the hands of cyber criminals. Also, you will find an additional toolbar on that website which presents you with promised financial tools. However, there are only a few links to well known websites such as Yahoo Finance or MSN Money, so there is no actual point to use it.

Developers of Wall Street Watch are promoting Local Weather tool and mynewswire.co website. We highly recommend to avoid both of them – they are just another potentially unwanted programs. Local Weather is a tool that should provide you with accurate weather forecast, however, we have discovered that this tool can’t get those forecasts right. Mtnewswire.co is supposed to be a website that should provide you with various new from all around the world, however, just pay a visit to it and you will see that there are more advertisements than actual content and the content itself is really weak and questionable.

Solve Wallstreetwatch.co problem

First of all, just try the easy solution – make right-click with your mouse on the Wall Street Watch icon on the toolbar on your Google Chrome browser and select the option “Remove from Chrome”. After that you should see a notification “We’re sorry to see you go. Help us improve Wall Street Watch!”. From this moment you should not be seeing Wallstreetwatch.co as your new tab page and the icon of this tool should be removed from your web browser. However, that’s not it – some malicious files might be left stored on your computer and it is also likely that other malware is operating on it. That is why we recommend to scan your computer with anti-malware application, such as Spyhunter. Scan your computer with either one of these programs and all malicious files should be gone from your computer in no time.

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