Polished Patterns is the name of a malware that counts on people being distracted to be quietly installed into their computers. It has been developed by cyber-criminals whose only goal is to make money through the infected users. Polished Patterns can infect your PC through the download and install of free software whose installation has been modified by unworthy sites to include additional programs… mostly spyware.
Ads shown by Polished Patterns can appear in different ways, either as pop-ups, banners, green/blue underlined links among the text of every visited website. These ads are usually tagged as Ads by Polished Patterns or Powered by Polished Patterns.
Polished Patterns is installed (as most adware is) while another program is being installed, free software more than likely, we’re talking of fake video players found in streaming websites, fake plug-in updates or programs found in download platforms like softonic.com, download.com, sourceforge.com, soft32.com, platforms that add it to their install programs so they can make money too… every successful install means money to them.
Here’s what Polished Patterns’ official website looks like, of course this website is nothing but a cover and a place to show their conditions of use, conditions that are effective for every user that has this advertising software installed.
You should note that you have given your full approval to these conditions by installing the software… the fact that you probably did it without realizing it makes no difference whatsoever.
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