Browser Hijackers - These are dangerous plugins made for the most popular web browsers and are usually uploaded to their relevant repositories with fake user reviews and developer identities.

To make them appear as more legitimate to the visitors the criminals can add in security certificates that can be stolen or self-signed.

Dangerous Web Sites - The hackers can also construct sites that impersonate well-known web portals: download sites, search engines, software landing pages and even game communities.

The emails can originate from addresses that sound similar to the legitimate sources.

They include links or scripts that will lead to the Baidu virus infection.

Phishing Emails - The hackers can coordinate mass email phishing messages which pose as being sent by companies or services.

If the Baidu virus is a web threat and ditributed as a malware site or script it can be spread using several common ways: At any time there may be several iterations of the threat running at a single time by various criminal groups. Baidu virus samples can be spread using different tactics depending on its actual form which is being used by the criminals.

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