Monthly Archives: October 2015 - Page 3

ZoomEx

ZoomEx is yet another useless ad-supported program from the ever-growing Multiplug family. When you are infected with this adware, there are clear telltale signs in the form of third-party advertisements. While you might think that it is great to have best deals and products offered to you so that you can “save money,” we must tell you that clicking on these ads might end ugly for you. Closing pop-up ads will not save you from the potential risk of clicking on them. You need to remove ZoomEx if you want to protect your PC. However, if you have this threat on your computer, it is more than likely that there are other malware infections as well. In order to restore the previous security level of your operating system, we advise you to read on our article to find out more. Read more »

Safesurfs.com

Safesurfs.com

If you ever open any of your browsers and notice the presence of Safesurfs.com, it is likely that you have become a victim of a browser hijacker. It is known that Safesurfs.com is very harsh because it not only changes homepages and search engines, but also modifies the shortcuts of all the browsers in order not to allow users to get rid of it easily. Even though it is not so easy to remove Safesurfs.com, you should still do that because this search engine might be the reason why malicious software manages to enter your system so easily. As has been mentioned, it will not be easy to do that because it makes many modifications. Luckily, we know how to restore the changes and we are going to help you with that, so continue reading this article. Read more »

Goodasfound.com

Goodasfound.com

Goodasfound.com is a browser hijacker that enters your computer without your permission. Users often initiate the installation of this browser hijacker, although they are not aware of the fact. Our research shows that it is possible to avoid similar infections if you stay away from unfamiliar websites that offer freeware and other suspicious software. If you care about your system’s security, you must remove Goodasfound.com right now, and then scan your PC with a legitimate antispyware tool of your choice. The point is that this browser hijacker might have arrived at your computer in a software package and, thus, the possibility that there are more unwanted programs on-board is very high. Read more »

DownloadHunter

DownloadHunter

DownloadHunter is a program which seems to be trustworthy at first sight because it says that it will allow you to manage all your downloads easily and you will even be able to convert files into different formats if you install DownloadHunter on your system. Unfortunately, DownloadHunter is not a useful program even though it claims to be so. In fact, it might cause harm to your system instead of acting in a useful way. If you wonder how this might happen, you should know that DownloadHunter is an adware program which is going to provide suspicious advertisements. You might click on those ads accidentally, so you have to remove DownloadHunter completely if you want to protect your system from harm. We know that not all the users know how to delete advertising-supported applications, so we are ready to explain you how to do that in this article. Read more »

Fashion Life

Fashion Life

Fashion Life is a rather unique adware program that is set to work as gadget for Windows 7 and Vista. Our researchers say that it may display unreliable advertisements so you should remove it from your computer as soon as the opportunity arises. Nevertheless, we also want to make clear that it may show advertisements not only on the aforementioned operating systems, but on Windows 8 and 10 as well. Only the gadget itself will not appear on the desktop. For the most part, this gadget is set to promote certain fashion-related websites, but it may also be prone to display commercial advertisements on your browser. Therefore, this program is quite annoying and you might want to get rid of it. Read more »

Livesmartsearch.com

Livesmartsearch.com

Livesmartsearch.com is known to be a browser hijacker because it usually replaces homepages and search engines without a user’s permission. Some users notice that immediately and some do not. There are also users who decide to keep Livesmartsearch.com because it looks like a decent search provider and it really allows users to search for the information. It does not matter that Livesmartsearch.com seems to be a decent search provider because you should still delete it and never judge the trustworthiness of a search engine from its appearance ever again. Specialists do not recommend that you keep Livesmartsearch.com for one main reason – it might provide you with sponsored search results and thus might expose you to potential threats. We do not think that you want to cause harm to your system, so we have prepared the instructions. Feel free to use them after you read through this article from beginning to end. Read more »

Websearch.coolfindings.info

Websearch.coolfindings.info

There are quite a few invasive browser hijackers roaming the web these days. Websearch.coolfindings.info is precisely such application, and it should be avoided at all costs as it cannot be trusted under any circumstances. The hijacker comes from an infamous group known as Websearch, which is notorious for developing other analogous intrusive programs such as Websearch.searchtheuniverse.info, Websearch.searchouse.info, Websearch.hotfindings.info, and quite a few others; thus, it is natural that we advise you to remove this hijacker just like any of its counterparts. The infectious program holds no valuable features and is only capable of causing numerous disruptions while you are surfing the web. Read more »

Exciteday.com

Exciteday.com

If you ever open your Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox and notice that Exciteday.com search engine has replaced your homepage and default search provider, there is no doubt that you have become a victim of a browser hijacker. Exciteday.com might look really useful at first sight and you might think that it is nothing wrong to use Exciteday.com as a primary search provider. Unfortunately, this might really put your system at risk, so we do not recommend keeping Exciteday.com or using it to search for the information. We will explain you how to get rid of this search engine further in this article. On top of that, we have provided you with the manual removal instructions in order to help you delete this infection. Use them after you read through this article. Read more »

Beansearching.com

Beansearching.com

Browser hijackers are considered to be a category of infectious applications that stand out in their annoying and potentially malicious features. Beansearching.com fits perfectly into this category as it exhibits numerous irritating and at times even potentially malicious features. Our malware analysts have noticed that it has been roaming the web lately and that, unfortunately, a rather big number of Internet users have their operating system infected with it. This turns out to be so because in most cases this hijacker is distributed in a suspicious way. Thus, we provide a few preventative steps that will help you avoid infecting your PC with this or any other malicious application. Read the rest of this report as we provide our further findings about the functionality of Beansearching.com along a professionally crafted removal guide that even non-advanced computer users can execute without any major problems. Read more »

DailyWiki

DailyWiki

Malware developers craft numerous intrusive and suspicious programs on a daily basis. Our research team has recently come across a program known as DailyWiki which has been classified as adware mostly because of the suspicious way that it works. Our reports exhibit the fact that a rather vast number of Internet users already have it up and running on their operating system. As it turns out, this is so because of this adware application might be marketed as a tool that you should run if you are keen on improving your online searchers. What is unfortunate is that such deceiving marketing gimmicks actually trick some users, and they install this useless adware program themselves. The only thing that this ad-supported program will do is ruin your online experience. You should use a detailed removal guide crafted by our malware researchers to delete DailyWiki once and for all. Read more »