Clicktm.club pop-up ads is a browser hijacker that will make unneeded alterations to your browser without permission. The threat was probably added to a freeware as an extra item, and since you did not uncheck it, it installed. It's important that you are careful when installing software because if you're not, these kinds of threats will install over and over again. This is not a severe infection but because of its unnecessary activity, you will want it gone as soon as possible. Your browser's home website and new tabs will be altered, and a different web page will load instead of your usual website. Your search engine will also be altered into one that might insert advertisement links into results. You are rerouted so that the page owners could make profit from traffic and ads. Not all of those reroutes will lead to safe pages, so be careful not to get a severe infection. If you got your operating system infected with malicious program, the situation would be much more dire. In order for people to find them useful, hijackers pretend to have helpful features but the reality is, you could easily replace them with legitimate add-ons which would not reroute you. Browser redirects also gather information about the users, so that content users would be more likely to press on could be displayed. It is feasible that the data would be shared with third-parties too. And that is why you should terminate Clicktm.club pop-up ads as soon as possible.
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