Monthly Archives: October 2015 - Page 17

People who use Facebook often think that Unfriend Monitor is a perfect program because it promises to enable users to find out who have unfriended them. We cannot say whether this program will really allow you to manage the list of friends; however, you should be really careful with it because it is not a product of Facebook creators. In other words, there is a risk that this program can cause harm to you and even steal your Facebook login and password. Researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com have found that Unfriend Monitor will also show you commercial advertisements. Ad-supported programs do not stop showing advertisements. In other words, you will have to deal with pop-ups, coupons, banners, and other kinds of commercials every day. If you want to use your PC and surf the web without interruptions, you have to eliminate Unfriend Monitor from the system. Our researchers are going to provide you with all the necessary information regarding the removal of this adware in this article. Read more »

Bang5Tao was released for the purpose of promoting merchandise available for purchase from a website called B5m.com. You should remove this program if you do not want to see its annoying promotions. Our researchers have classified it as an adware program, and quite rightly so, because apart from displaying advertisements it will not do anything else. The main issue regarding this program is the fact that it cannot be easily removed even if you wanted to, so we took it upon ourselves to show you how to do it. We have also gathered some relevant information about Bang5Tao that you might find interesting and insightful. So let us get started. Read more »

If you use emoticons when chatting with your friends and writing emails, and you happen to come across Emotypecon, you might install this program without realizing that it is adware. Advertisement-supported software is on the rise because cyber criminals have learnt to exploit it in different ways. For example, this ad-supported program uses attractive looking services to showcase third-party links. Even though we do not say that the creators of Emotypecon are cyber criminals, you have to take it into account that they have created a very suspicious program that is used as an advertising tool. Do we recommend removing this program? We sure do, and you can learn more about this by reading our report. Read more »

Social Reviewer is a useless adware application that you should not keep on your computer, if you do not want to be introduced to potentially unreliable web content. The presence of this adware may even surprise you because you may not remember installing it at all. If this program appears on your computer without your knowledge, you had better remove it right away. If you do not act in time, you may be exposed to unreliable websites, and that might cause harm to your operating system. Third-party ads this adware may show you while you are surfing the web can also be annoying. There is no other way to stop these ads and the potential dangers than to delete Social Reviewer as soon as possible. Read more »

PopToTop poses as a useful application that can “take your browsing experience to the top”; however, our malware researchers have found that this is just another ad-supported program from the growing Lyrics family. This adware family, which includes our latest discoveries, Hi-Lighter and Popdown Steps, is notorious for producing useless and unreliable applications that have one single purpose: to generate money via third-party advertising. PopToTop is no exception, but you need to know that the ads this adware displays can be rather annoying and distracting, and, at the same time, they may also hold certain risks. Knowing about these can give you a chance to protect your computer from more threats to challenge your operating system. Your PC can never be safe if this adware is on-board, as you never know when it may present unsafe content to you. There is one thing we know though: You should remove PopToTop if you want to avoid the potential security risks involved. Read more »