Smumi.club Popup is a fake alert that can be displayed in your browsers while you are browsing the web and end up on questionable websites. It is possible that you click on corrupt content to be redirected there but you may also be infected by adware programs that can do such redirections. In any case, it is important that you do not click the OK button on these pop-ups because you may install useless and possibly harmful browser extensions in return. Our malware experts at anti-spyware-101.com say that it is essential that you understand how this fake alert can show up on your screen and how you can avoid it so that you can prevent further infections from happening. Since the security of your system is our utmost priority, we recommend that you remove Smumi.club Popup from your computer. For more details, please read our full report to understand how you can protect your PC more efficiently against all kinds of malware threats. Read more »
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Search.trackmyflight.com
Whenever you install new programs on your computer, you should be careful about the additional features they bring, because you might eventually encounter the likes of Search.trackmyflight.com. As you can probably tell, this link has something to do with a web search. In fact, this website will be set as your default search engine and homepage when you install a program associated with it on your computer. Hence, our security specialists say that this program is a browser hijacker, and in this article, we will deal with the browser hijacker removal. For the manual removal instructions, please scroll down to the bottom of this description. Read more »
Ezupdater Ads
If you are thinking about downloading a program entitled Ezupdater Ads, you might want to hold up before you do so. After receiving quite a few complaints about this application, malware experts working at Anti-Spyware-101.com have conducted its complete analysis. While it is advertised as a tool that you should have running on your PC since it can improve the overall functionality of your computer by resolving numerous issues, you must know that the reality is rather different. Our researchers have classified this application as a potentially unwanted program mostly due to its suspicious functionality and distribution. Having it active on your PC could make surfing the web a much more annoying experience than you are used to. Also, it could act in a rather aggressive manner, which could expose your operating system to other intrusive applications. Find out how that could happen by reading our report. Below we also present an easy-to-follow removal guide that you should use to delete Ezupdater Ads once and for all. Read more »
SOREBRECT Ransomware
SOREBRECT Ransomware is a new and unique ransomware-type computer infection that can infect your computer secretly and encrypt your files with an AES-256-bit encryption algorithm. Therefore, removing it is crucial, but it can be too late as this program is set to encrypt your files right after the infection. Its creators want you to pay money for a decryption tool to recover your files. However, you should know that you may not receive the promised decryptor after you pay. This ransomware is bad news and is one of the most malicious programs currently out there. If you want to find out more about it, please continue reading. Read more »
Cry36 Ransomware
The Cry36 ransomware is an infection that locks you out of your system and keeps your files hostage until you pay the ransom. The sad truth is that after paying the money required the encrypted files are very likely to remain inaccessible. The Cry36 ransomware should be treated as a serious security issue, so we encourage you to take action to remove it from the computer.
The Cry36 ransomware is part of a ransomware family that also includes similar infections dubbed Cry9, Cry128, Dharma, and Crypton, also known as Nemisis. All these Trojan horses have similar characteristics; however, each of them is unique at the same time because there are some distinctive features. One of them is that the Cry36 ransomware makes encrypted files bigger in size compared to their original copies. Research on the ransomware has revealed that the infection increases the size of the affected files by 36 bytes. Alongside this characteristic, there are several more, and interested readers are encouraged to continue reading to get the view of how this nasty piece of malware works. Read more »
Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup
Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup is one more fake alert that acts in an extremely invasive manner. If you have encountered it, you must take immediate action to remove the program responsible for it. This is crucial since due to the fake error message, you will not be able to use your computer the way you are used to. Also, this alert could lead to other serious virtual security problems. To have a better understanding of how it works, in this article we provide detailed information regarding the intricate inner workings behind it. Alongside such information, we also present virtual security tips that will help you maintain a fully secure operating system at all times. Finally, below we provide an in-depth removal guide that will allow you to delete a malicious program responsible for prompting the Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup fake alert. Read more »
Avboost
Avboost is a potentially unwanted application you could accidentally install with bundled setup files. At first, the program might look quite handy since it allows to change screen brightness, computer volume, turn off Wi-Fi, or take a screenshot with tools provided on a single pop-up window. On the other hand, most of nowadays keyboards have buttons that allow to turn the volume up and down, take screenshots, and so on. In other words, having this application installed may not make any difference at all. However, there is more as our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com believe the program might be not only a worthless piece of software but also a possibly dangerous one. It looks like Avboost can install adware on the computer, and such software could show potentially malicious advertising content. Accordingly, users are advised to remove the suspicious tool before anything goes wrong and the deletion instructions located at the end of this text will show how to complete the task. Read more »
StrutterGear Ransomware
StrutterGear Ransomware seems to be a dangerous malicious threat in progress so it may not spread too widely just yet. Still, it is important for us to report what we have found out about this malicious program that could be your next nightmare once it is finished. Our malware specialists at anti-spyware-101.com say that this new threat is a new variant of the infamous Jigsaw Ransomware. We have seen a few infections rise from this malware, including Anonymous Ransomware and Payms Ransomware. Although this new version has all the capabilities of the original ransomware, right now it does not seem to encrypt any of your files. This means that you do not need to panic because whatever the rather obscene ransom note say may only describe a future version. So you can forget about paying hundreds of dollars for the decryption key. But even if this ransomware does not harm your files, you cannot leave this attack unaddressed. We recommend that you remove StrutterGear Ransomware ASAP if you do not want to risk any further security issues related to this threat. Read more »
SpecialSearchOffer
SpecialSearchOffer is a questionable application, to say the least. In fact, it has been categorized as one more potentially unwanted program that you should avoid. Such classification has been made after a thorough analysis of this application, which revealed questionable functionality, and its suspicious distribution. Thus, if you ever happen to encounter this program, be sure to stay away for it since it does not exhibit valuable functionality whatsoever; in fact, it will only make surfing the web a much more annoying and frustrating task because it can make unwanted and unauthorized changes to your web browser's default settings. For further information regarding its overall functionality, make sure to read the rest of our report. Additionally, we provide a few virtual security tips and a detailed removal guide that you should use to delete SpecialSearchOffer in just a few simple steps. Read more »
Takeitnow.club
Takeitnow.club is a website which is better known for specialists at anti-spyware-101.com as a redirect from suspicious third-party pages, such as http://911docs.net. Since it promotes the browser extension for Google Chrome called Fontfully, specialists are sure that promoting this piece of software is its main job. If this website is ever opened for you and goes into full-screen mode, do not click on the Add extension button because we cannot confirm that the promoted extension can be fully trusted and is beneficial. You do not need to click on this button to close this website, you can easily do that by clicking X or tapping Alt+F4 on your keyboard no matter that it has occupied the entire screen. Have you already added the extension it promotes? If so, you should remove it from the list of add-ons in the near future. We can assure you that it is not a harmful infection. Instead, it is just a potentially unwanted application. Even though these programs are far from malicious applications, they might still act in an undesirable way on users’ computers, so letting them stay is a bad idea. Let’s talk about Fontfully in detail first, and then we will focus on its removal. Read more »
