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TaxCenterNow : Threat’s Description

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TaxCenterNow is a kind of possibly undesired application which is especially designed by a marketing company known as Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. This company is know to produce ad-supported browser toolbar, custom search tool and the content that can be downloaded from third party websites. According to the cyber security analysts, this browser add-on is available for the popular Internet browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. At first glance, you may expect that TaxCenterNow program offers help in order to manage your taxes.

However, the developers of this adware application claims that the toolbar can alter the default homepage and search engine onto the web browsers installed on user's machine. All it does that with the main objective to provide supposedly useful links to the third party resources like hrblock[.]com, taxfoundation[.]org and turbotax.intuit[.]com websites. In addition to that, the new tab page replaced by TaxCenterNow is identified as 'hp[.]myway[.]com' which also consists few links to social networking portals, a clock along with a weather forecast. However, once getting installed onto the targeted Windows machine, the threat requires some privileges onto the installed web browsers.

Privileges Required by TaxCenterNow on Mozilla FF

• Access browser online activities during the navigation.
• Manages the extensions installed on Mozilla and manage themes.
• Access your data that you may enter on the visited websites.
• Exchange the messages with other third party applications.
• TaxCenterNow requires to access the tabs opened in your browser.

Rights that Requires TaxCenterNow on Google Chrome

• Replace the new tab URL address with its own one.
• Manages your installed extensions, apps and themes.
• TaxCenterNow requires the permission to manage your downloads.
• Read and modify all the data on your visited web portals.

In addition to that, it can also modify the default settings on Internet Explorer as well. In case, if gets installed onto your machine or you may mistakenly install it due to its appealing properties, you should known that TaxCenterNow has the ability to capture your online browsing activities, monitor the websites that you visit, explore and download any apps and drop web beacons onto the computer as well. In this way, its developers i.e. 'Mindspark' display targeted ads on your PC screen that might lead you to insecure domains after clicking on them. Hence, you should remove TaxCenterNow from the system ASAP.

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Step:1 Remove TaxCenterNow or any Suspicious Program from Control Panel resulting in Pop-ups

• Click on Start and in Menu, Select Control Panel.

• In Control Panel, Search for TaxCenterNow or any suspicious program

• Once found, Click to Uninstall TaxCenterNow or related program from list of Programs

• However, if you are not sure do not Uninstall it as this will remove it permanently from the system.

Step:2 How to Reset Google Chrome to Remove TaxCenterNow

• Open Google Chrome browser on your PC
• On the top right corner of the browser you will see 3 stripes option, click on it.
• After that click on Settings from the list of menus available on chrome’s panel.

• At the end of the page, a button is available with option to “Reset settings”.

• Click on the button and get rid of TaxCenterNow from your Google Chrome.

How to Reset Mozilla Firefox to Uninstall TaxCenterNow

• Open Mozilla Firefox web browser and click on the options icon with 3 stripes sign and also click on help option with (?) mark.
• Now click on “Troubleshooting Information” from the given list.

• Within the upper right corner of the next window you can find “Refresh Firefox” button, click on it.

• To reset your Mozilla Firefox browser simply click on “Refresh Firefox” button again, after which all unwanted changes made by TaxCenterNow will be removed automatically.

Steps to Reset Internet Explorer to Get Rid of TaxCenterNow

• You need to close all Internet Explorer windows which are currently working or open.
• Now open Internet Explorer again and click on Tools button, with wrench icon.
• Go to the menu and click on Internet Options.

• A dialogue box will appear, then click on Advanced tab on it.
• Saying Reset Internet Explorer Settings, click on Reset again.

• When IE applied the default settings then, click on Close. And then click OK.

Restart the PC is a must for taking effect on all the changes you have made.

Step:3 How to Protect your PC from TaxCenterNow in Near Future

Steps to Turn On Safe Browsing Features

Internet Explorer: Activate SmartScreen Filter against TaxCenterNow

• This can be done on IE Versions 8 and 9. It mailnly helps in detecting TaxCenterNow while browsing
• Launch IE
• Choose Tools in IE 9. If you are using IE 8, Find Safety option in Menu
• Now Select SmartScreen Filter and opt for Turn on SmartScreen Filter
• Once done, Restart IE

How to Enable Phishing and TaxCenterNow Protection on Google Chrome

• Click on Google Chrome browser
• Select Customize and Control Google Chrome (3-Bar Icon)
• Now Choose Settings from the option
• In the Settings Option, Click on Show advanced Settings which can be found at the bottom of the Setup
• Select Privacy Section and click on Enable Phishing and Malware Protection
• Now Restart Chrome, this will keep your browser safe from TaxCenterNow

How to Block TaxCenterNow Attack and Web Forgeries

• Click to Load Mozilla Firefox
• Press on Tools on Top Menu and Select options
• Choose Security and enable check mark on following
• warn me when some site installs add-ons
• Block reported Web forgeries
• Block reported attack Sites

If still TaxCenterNow exists on your system, Scan your PC to detect and Get Rid of it

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