Deceiving domain - bigdater.me
Bigdater.me is the type of cyber threat that is browser-based and focused on redirecting the traffic to advertising pages, promotional sites, and other websites where views can get collected, measured, and generated into revenue. Pay-per-click is the main goal of these ad-supported sites, so the user is exposed to many different advertisements to ensure that more clicks get triggered.
Since views and visits are collected, Bigdater.me, as any other potentially unwanted program, can access data about the visitor in regards to browsing preferences and more personalized details like location, IP address. Although the information is not personally identifiable, it gets misused by third-party actors, advertisers for malvertising purposes and helps to generate personalized commercial material.
These deceptive techniques expose users to malicious content, and no advertiser can guarantee that redirects are not redirecting you to the malware-laden page with malicious scripts. Visiting such pages can continue for a longer period, and your system gets significantly infected without you noticing.
| Name | Bigdater.me |
|---|---|
| Type of threat | Adware/ redirect virus |
| Symptoms | Advertising content and redirects keep the user from accessing wanted content and exposes to possibly malicious online material that can lead to infiltration of serious malware or system issues |
| Distribution | Freeware bundles, deceptive sites, promotional content triggers installations of PUPs. Torrent services and shady software distribution sites do not disclose the additional installations and users download adware without noticing |
| Main danger | Pages appearing as redirects show possibly malicious content and lead to other installations of PUPs. Once the machine is infected it becomes slow, and all the changes made in the background keeps you from cleaning the PC completely |
bigdater.me violations
2CR-015: Is included in the database of anti-virus software
2CR-007: The site tries to deceive the user to allow notifications. Deceptive content tries to keep the visitor on the website
