launchpad.org is a browser hijacker that also acts as a DNS hijacker.
A browser hijacker is a program that makes sure to change several settings of your web browsers, affecting its normal behavior. The two most sought after settings to be modified are the default homepage and default search engine. launchpad.org manages to manipulate where the user ends up by modifying requests for connections taking the user instead to malicious websites usually looking to collect personal data.
A DNS hijacker or DNS Spoofing is in charge of delivering fake responses to DNS requests. In other words when the DNS is looking for a domain name it will receive a different IP address and not the one it was supposed to see. These fake DNS answers are possible because the program changes DNS settings on the infected PC. Therefore someone infected will see at launchpad.org a Russian website, however someone who’s not infected actually realizes the domain name is for sale.
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