Monthly Archives: January 2014 - Page 11

BetterBrowse is a program which claims to be able to enhance your browsing experience by presenting tools for searching the web, comparing online deals, and finding the best prices. As this program is entirely free, you can expect it to show a variety of advertisements. They will appear every time you launch your Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome, which is rather disturbing. As this advertising-supported program is based on the same template as a bunch of other applications, for instance, Trontizer, SquirrelWeb, and Bizzybolt, you should avoid them all because they have the same characteristics. You should definitely remove BetterBrowse and other similar programs from your system the second you notice their presence. Read more »

Spring Smart is a potentially unwanted program that is barely useful. It is classified as adware which means that if you allow Spring Smart to remain on your computer, you will be exposed to a variety of commercial advertisements. Technically adware and especially such applications as Spring Smart could hardly be considered computer malware, but any user who is concerned with his/her computer security would think twice before installing such a program. The problem is that this application could expose you to a various security threats and that is the main reason why you are strongly advised to remove Spring Smart. Read more »

BetterMarkit is meant to be this amazing, revolutionary application which could help you search the web, highlight found information and share it with your friends via social networking sites. Unfortunately, many computer users running the add-on have discovered suspicious advertisements flooding their web browsers. This has been discovered on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers all of which are compatible with the questionable advertisement supported program. According to Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers, BetterMarkit removal is not the most complicated task; however, you may have more complicated issues with the removal of potentially existing adware. Do you find suspicious adverts flooding the browsers even after the extension has been deleted? Then you should continue reading. Read more »

Connect Toolbar is a browser plugin which can be downloaded from its official website connectdlc5.ourtoolbar.com. This toolbar is compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Safari; thus, you will definitely notice its presence if it gets onto your system. Connect Toolbar states that it delivers the freshest content to your browser, propose you the best links, shows various important notifications instantly, and enable you to use a powerful search engine. All these features look rather useful, but there are several things which have not been mentioned by the publisher Conduit Ltd. The first one is the fact that it is going to show you various advertisements every time you launch your browser; secondly, it will change your homepage and your default search engine if you do not unmark the installation preferences, and finally, it is going to collect some non-personally identifiable data. Read more »

Updating-your-browser.org is a domain which seeks to spread some adware and some potentially unwanted programs. When you access this site, you are informed that your browser is outdated and that you should upgrade it by installing the latest version. If you pay attention to the disclaimer, which becomes brighter only when you highlight the text, Updating-your-browser.org is not associated with the developer of the internet browser that you are offered to update. Even though Updating-your-browser.org does not distributed computer infections, we recommend that you remove the programs that you have installed, especially if you have no intention of using them. Read more »

ShopperPro is an adware application that gets installed on your computer as a browser extension. This program has been developed to provide you with the most relevant information related to online shopping. Hence ShopperPro can be considered a useful browser extension, especially if you are an avid online shopper. Nevertheless, such applications are often related to potentially malicious third parties that are searching for different ways for malware distribution. ShopperPro could be a part of malware distribution scheme, so if you do not use the application often, remove ShopperPro from the PC to prevent any undesirable consequences. Read more »

If you have Bitlord toolbar installed onto Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, you need to inspect the entire system for potentially unwanted programs. The browser extension has been created by Conduit, and this company is known for distributing various unfamiliar undesirable programs together with the toolbars of your choice. You may recognize these applications as the Conduit Community Toolbars, and Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have analyzed quite a number of different versions, including the latest – Oscar Delta Toolbar, Metacrawler Toolbar and CricBuzz Toolbar. One more reason why Bitlord toolbar removal is recommended is the fact that this application is supported by unfamiliar, potentially unreliable third party advertisers. Read more »

SoundFrost is an application which is meant to act as a free music downloader. The application is meant to help you download and convert YouTube videos as well, which is why so many computer users have already downloaded this potentially unwanted program onto their operating systems already. The application can be downloaded onto Windows XP/Vista/7/8 systems from soundfrost.org; however, alternative sources exist as well. For example, the application could be downloaded from softonic.com. Read more »

Have you noticed various advertisements appearing while you are browsing the web? If it is so, you might have Kozaka software on your system. As it is closely related to various advertisements, it is mainly classified as an advertising-supported program. This program works very similarly as SquirrelWeb, Trontizer, and Fanhoosh Deals and if you have any of these applications on your system, you will soon notice that they are compatible with all the most popular browsers which are Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Even though Kozaka claims to be able to improve your browsing experience by providing tools for searching the web, comparing online deals, and finding the best prices, you should remove Kozaka from your system as it might violate your privacy and interrupt your browsing activities. Read more »

Utorrent.inspsearch.com is one of the products of BitTorrent, Inc., which provides computer users with a great variety of products and services. If you think that the µTorrent Client is the only application that is developed by this company, you are mistaken. There are many more products and services, and Utorrent.inspsearch.com is one of them. It is a search provider which you can access using any internet browser. Like most search engine, Utorrent.inspsearch.com generates sponsored links, which are not controlled by the search engine. The advertisements that you encounter on the search results page are aimed at attracting new visitors and converting them into potential clients. However, you should be extra cautious when dealing with sponsored links, also labeled as ads, because you do not know where exactly you will be taken by that link. If the computer gets infected, you are the number-one-person to be blamed for the adverse consequences. Read more »