What is Desktop Dock?

What is Desktop Dock?
Desktop Dock is a very hateful advertising program that will generate many pop-up ads, banner ads and sponsored links on IE, Firefox, Google Chrome or any other browsers on your computer. It is compatible with many browsers so you can’t avoid the infection by changing the browser. The purpose of this advertisement software is to show commercial advertisements in the victim’s computer. It is created to collect sales leads and generate traffics for its sponsored sites. You will be pointed to other unwanted web sites that display ads and even contain malicious infections waiting for you to activate. Downloading unknown free programs and visiting suspicious sites on the Internet will help Desktop Dock get in your computer.

It is recommended that you do not click those deals and coupons from Desktop Dock as according to computer users’ feedback and computer experts research, ads from Desktop Dock may redirect people to unsafe website that have been hacked by cyber crooks or contain some computer viruses such browser hijacker, Trojan horse, Spyware, malware, etc.

Before produce useless pop-up ads, it also degrades the whole PC performance by eating up a lots of system resources in the background. The slow and sluggish performance frustrates the compromised user so much as it takes too much time for them to perform even the basic operations, and sometimes blue screen to death come out when users want to run some heavy applications. In a word, the PC performance is extremely hindered due to the presence of Desktop Dock.


What does Desktop Dock do in the infected PC?

Desktop Dock is an extremely harmful computer virus which mutates all the time to add new characteristics and makes great damages to the infected PC by performing a series of malicious tasks.

After being entangled with Desktop Dock infection, computer users may suffer serious decline of their PC performance. The poor running speed, windows freeze, unstable internet connection, blue screen of death, high CPU usage and many other PC issues come out frequently. Due to these PC problems, computer users cannot operate their PC normally and also encounter a lot of difficulties on their online activities.

What’s worse, the confidential information in the infected PC is being posed in a dangerous condition after the present of Desktop Dock as Desktop Dock can keep track of browser history, collect search terms and also record personal data like users name, login account, credit card number in the target PC and then send them to the cyber criminals to undertake some vicious tasks.

As time goes by, the virus infection sneakily chisels up back-doors in the system background and bring many potential unwanted programs into the PC without users’ consents. You will definitely lost total control of your own PC if you do keep Desktop Dock virus longer in your system.

Dangers of Desktop Dock
It can hijack your browsers to unknown websites and pop up a lot of ads on the web pages, which disturbs your work efficiency.
It consumes many system resources and makes the computer to run very slowly.
It drops other threats such as Trojan and spyware to further damage your system.
It can trace your browsing history, collect any useful information like search terms, and then send to the remote hackers.
It can modify the internet settings without permission, which blocks your access to the desired websites.
It takes over your browsers and makes changes to the default homepage and search engine.