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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 »

Adpeak, also known as Adpeak, Inc., is a software publisher whose programs you may wish to remove from your computer because of annoying advertisements, coupons, and special offers. The publisher is known because of GetSavin, Scorpion Saver, and some other free applications, some of which are already categorized as adware. Very often the programs associated with Adpeak are installed by mistake because computer users do not read the information that is displayed by the installation wizard. Not only are the application available on their official websites but they can also be bundled with numerous free programs, which is why you should not hurry to install a program once you launch its setup file. Read more »

GreatSaver is a browser add-on which you should be aware of if you care about your privacy. Remove GreatSaver from the computer if you want to prevent coupons, advertisements, and various offers that appear on the browser when browsing through different shopping websites. Once installed, the browser add-on starts monitoring your browsing behavior so that you can be provided with numerous offers. The sooner you put an end to this, the sooner you can browse the Internet as usual. Read more »

If you wish to run your operating system risk-free, you should remove HDVidCodec immediately. This suspicious browser extension categorized as an advertisement supported program and a potentially unwanted program could come bundled with various unreliable programs. Have you noticed packaged software installed on the PC without your authorization? This means that your operating system is vulnerable, and so even malicious applications could be running. Have you downloaded the program yourself? According to Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers, the suspicious application comes from the same group of PUPs as HDvid codec pack, HDvid Web Plugin, HDvid Plugin, etc. and can be presented through misleading pop-up installers. Overall, regardless of the version of the codec you run, if you wish to delete it from the system – you should not hesitate about it for another moment. Read more »

Smartbar ads is an adware application that can be installed on a target computer together with snap.do freeware. Once this application is installed on your computer, you will experience an onslaught of annoying commercial advertisements. SmartBar ads is not a malicious computer infection, but no security-minded computer user would like to keep it on his/her computer, as the application is rather vulnerable to third party exploitation and thus it can be used as a vehicle or a medium to expose you to even more dangerous threats. Needless to say, that in order to protect yourself from such consequences, you ought to remove Smartbar ads from your computer immediately. Read more »

Advertisements supported by Rvzr2-a.akamaihd.net cannot be trusted because this advertising domain supports a variety of different advertisers. Some of them could use the domain to promote authentic, relatively harmless advertisements; however, others could expose you to unreliable or even corrupted advertisements. As you can tell, the risks are very high, and so we recommend having Rvzr2-a.akamaihd.net related software deleted from the PC without further delay. Do you know how to remove connections to this advertising domain? Well, you need to remove Bettersurf because it is directly linked. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have reported Ads by Bettersurf quite recently; however, if you do not known how to delete the plugin, we recommend reading this report further. Read more »

Freemium toolbar is a Conduit community toolbar which has been developed to distribute a variety of undesirable computer applications. First and foremost, it is the Conduit search tools – search.conduit.com and the Freemium EN1 Customized Web Search. These are bundled together with the suspicious toolbar, and as Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have revealed, you may miss an opportunity to refuse these applications since they are set to install automatically. The same goes for Wajam, Search Protect and Value Apps. If you do not want to install these applications, we recommend that you act cautiously during the installation setup, or avoid the toolbar altogether. Of course, if you have already installed it together with all of the undesirable programs, all you can do is remove Freemium. Read more »