MyWebFace is a toolbar that has only one function – it can alter the photo of a person the way it would look like a drawing from cartoons. Although it sounds fun but there are some negative aspects developers of this application are silent about. The same moment you install MyWebFace add-on, your home page and search page will be changed to mywebsearch.com. Let’s discuss the latter changes in more details.
The company behind MyWebFace toolbar earns money from generating traffic to the website it promotes. Even though the search engine itself does not look very different from other search tools, not many know that it displays advertisements mixed with the regular search results. This is what the company’s Privacy Policy talks about ads:
Advertising: We use third party advertisement serving companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visit to the Site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to the Site, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer or use other technologies such as pixel tags in connection to the Site.
You will not only get tricked to click on the pages that are actually adds but your Internet browsing habits will be monitored, recorded and used for various purposes. Such information like pages you visit, URL’s you enter, etc. will no longer be considered your private information. The data will be used for displaying more advertisements based on your preferences.
Even though MyWebFace toolbar is not directly related to malware, there are good reasons for wishing to remove it, especially if this browser hijacker has been installed unintentionally. Many times adware and browser hijackers are distributed using unfair techniques such as bundling it with other software. When a victim chooses an automatic installation, she ends up with many more programs, most of which is difficult to remove. Some of traditional antivirus tools do not detect this type of infection which makes it particularly difficult to remove it. Fortunately, there are tools and instructions available that assist in unwanted programs like MyWebFace removal.