Unico Browser is a web browser with a great resemblance to Chrome, being completely normal as both browsers are based on the same source, Chromium. Chromium is an open source web browser and serves as base for Chrome and since version 15 for Opera too. To build Unico Browser, Chromium source code was used and then some additional capabilities were added, sadly for the worse, since most of then are tracking capabilities.
Besides becoming the default browser on its own accord, Unico Browser creates several shortcuts for the most popular web services such as Amazon, Hotmail, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia; in this way it makes sure you’ll use the browser as much as possible because all of these sites are directly opened in Unico Browser.
Unico Browser is always active in your PC, even when it looks like its closed. We can see that easily by opening the active process window or in Window’s notifications bar.
For the non-expert eye, there are barely some little differences between Chrome and Unico Browser. Actually we can see some Chrome references in it, no doubt by design. One of the most clear differences is the links upper panel where we can see different shortcuts towards some websites:
If you use Unico Browser, its creators can know everything that you do on the net, making constant calls to geoloc.clara-labs.com or data.bd-pl.com. It is then not in your best interest to use this program or even have it installed in your computer.
You should know that getting this infection is quite easy. When you install some kinds of software it’s common to find this kind of malware attached to it. You must always check any pre-selected cases. Here’s an example of a UnicoBrowser install: