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Our malware researchers have recently analyzed a malicious application called Pakistani Girls Mobile Data. As it turns out, this program is set to download and install a modified MVPS hosts file to show ads, and you should remove it because of that. Usually, we classify ad-displaying software as adware, but since this particular application is configured to replace a system file, we have classified this program as a Trojan. Hence, this application is malicious, and we warn you that its advertisements are bound to jeopardize your computer’s security since its ads come from unknown and possibly questionable sources. To find out more about this malware, we kindly invite you to read this full article. Read more »

Locklock Ransomware is a malicious application whose sole purpose is to extort money from you, and it is set to do that by encrypting your files. We recommend that you remove it from your computer as soon as possible, but if it already has encrypted your files, then it is too late to do anything about that. There might be a free decryption tool released in the near future, but, currently, the only way to get your files back is to purchase the decryptor form this ransomware’s developer. However, we advise you not to do this because you might not get the decryptor once you have paid for it. To find out more about this ransomware, please read this whole article. Read more »

A_Princ@aol.com Ransomware comes from a big group of ransomware infections that leave users with encrypted files. These programs will stop at nothing in their quest to make easy money, so you should not sit idly and let the cyber criminals have their way. It may not easy to remove A_Princ@aol.com Ransomware and everything associated with this threat, but you will surely breathe a sigh of relief when it is done. It may not be possible to retrieve your encrypted files, but that should not stop you from terminating this application. Please do everything you can to get rid of the program. Read more »

Trojan.Redirector is an application designed to generate advertising revenue for its developers. Unlike adware programs or other advertising-supported software, it is a malicious program that installs itself without the user’s permission. Our researchers found out that it can display unreliable advertising content while you are using google.com or different search engines on the Internet Explorer browser. Apparently, the malware can replace original results with advertising. To make matters worse, this Trojan tries to hide its presence on the system, so it might be hard to notice that something is wrong. However, if you suspect that this threat might have settled on your computer, we advise you to read the article and learn about it in more detail. Also, since this is a serious threat and it is crucial to get rid of it before anything bad happens, we are adding removal instructions below the article. Read more »

KawaiiLocker Ransomware is a malicious application that employs the encryption algorithm AES-192 to encrypt personal files. It will encrypt the first 192 bytes of your pictures, presentations, documents, music, and videos thus making it impossible to open them. Once if finishes encrypting personal files it finds on the computer, it connects to the domain 7476357288-0.myjino.ru which uses an IP address 81.177.139.161. Therefore, we suspect that it stores all encryption keys there. You should remove KawaiiLocker Ransomware right now in order not to allow it to act like that. You should do that to protect files you create/download in the future too. Ransomware infections are serious threats that are usually hard to remove; however, it should not be very hard for you to erase KawaiiLocker Ransomware because you will have to remove the malicious file only. We will tell you more about the deletion of this ransomware in the following paragraphs. Read more »

Supportfriend@india.com Ransomware is one of many CrySIS-engine-based releases to have hit the Internet this summer. Its sole purpose is to infect your computer, encrypt your files and then offer you to purchase a decryption tool to decrypt them. You can risk buying it, but there is no guarantee that you will get it, and this decryption tool does not come cheap. Therefore, suggest removing this ransomware and recovering your files from external drives, provided that you have backups. In this short, article, we will discuss this malicious program’s distribution methods, features and functions, and ways you can get rid of it, so, if your computer has become infected with this ransomware, we invite you to continue reading. Read more »