Monthly Archives: October 2015 - Page 10

While you can personalize your desktop wallpaper, not many search tools provide that option. Pets by MyWay is an extension that was created by Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. This extension supposedly can help you personalize your homepage, but, instead of being called a useful and fun application, it has gained a reputation of a browser hijacker. This is because this program can change the homepage of your browsers, and, depending on the browser you use, it can do that without your permission. Although we do not identify this strange program as a serious security threat, there is no denying that it is best to remove Pets by MyWay. Read this report to learn more about the process, and, if you have questions, do not hesitate to start a discussion using the comments box below. Read more »

If you have found an application known as VAFMusic active on your operating system, you must know that it cannot be trusted entirely. In fact, our research team has categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program because it exhibits a few suspicious and rather invasive features. On its official website, this program is advertised as a great music player that should allow you to listen to all kinds of music for free. Unfortunately, these statements are rather misleading, since it has been discovered that more often than not this dubious music player can cause various disruptions while you are surfing the web. In reality, such marketing strategy is used to trick naïve Internet users into downloading and installing a program that does not function in the way it should. Below we provide a detailed removal guide that is easy to follow and will help you delete VAFMusic in no time at all. Read more »

ScreensFreak New Tab is yet another questionable application that your research team has come across lately. On its official website vendors’ of this program advertise it as a tool that should help you improve your online experiences in various ways. At first it sounds like a great tool to have active on your PC; unfortunately, it has been discovered that such statements are only used as a marketing gimmick to lure unsuspecting users into downloading and installing an application that in reality does not perform in the way it should. In fact, malware researchers at Anti-Spyware-101.com have dubbed this questionable application as a potentially unwanted program mostly because it works in a quite invasive and suspicious way as well as it is spread in a dubious manner. We highly advise you to remove ScreensFreak New Tab as it holds almost not valuable features. Below we provide a comprehensive removal guide that will help you delete it in no time whatsoever. Read more »

Vendors of Fdownloader promote their product on its official websites as an excellent download manager that should help you manage various download tasks and processes in a more efficient way than ever before. While it sounds like a tool worthy of having you must be warned about its functionality. Malware researchers at our internal labs have, in fact, categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program mostly because it works in a quite suspicious and invasive way. In reality, this download manager does not perform in the way that it should, and its questionable features obviously outweigh the positive ones; thus, we firmly advise you to remove Fdownloader. Our team encourages you to use a different, more reliable download manager instead of this one. Read the rest of this article and find out how this suspicious tool works and why its removal is so important. Read more »