Name: GoHip Category: Browser Hijacker Advice: Remove Risk: Elevated Risk Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. Description: GoHip is a website directory similar to Yahoo and a number of other search directories. GoHip's web site has a link on the very top of the page entitled "Click Here To Make GoHip! Your Default Search". This file changes information in your Windows registry so when you click on the Search button at the top of Internet Explorer it opens GoHip!. Many times it also changes your start page to be GoHip's as well. Signatures: process: download.exe: MD5 Hash: b43b56c3989cc336de1... process: winstartup.exe: MD5 Hash: ... process: windows startup.lnkdownload.exe: MD5 Hash: .. Type: Browser Hijacker - Spyware's primary purpose is to collect demographic and usage information from your computer, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware usually that 'sneaks' onto a system or performs other activities hidden to the user. Spyware programs are usually bundled as a hidden component and downloaded from the Internet. These modules are almost always installed on the system secretively and try to run secretively as well.