Anti-spyware 101

Deal Fairy is an adware program that displays pop ups on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. This application is supposed to help you save money on your purchases online. This adware application supports all the main online shopping malls, including eBay, Walmart, Amazon and many others. Deal Fairy will provide you with coupons, discount lists and even advertisements that pop up above underline keyword within a web text. Apart from being annoying, these pop-ups can also be related to malware distribution and that is why you are strongly advised to remove Deal Fairy from your computer. Read more »

Are you looking for a browser toolbar which could cheer you up? In this case you might have already installed HappinessInfusion onto your Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. The plugin is authentic and harmless; however, some users consider it to be a malicious browser hijacker. Once you install he plugin onto the computer it presents you with an installation setup. Here you are asked if you want to change the home page and the search engine to My Web Search. Unfortunately, many users overlook this offer and miss a chance to keep their browsers running without any changes. Therefore, even though the plugin may change some settings, it is not malicious. Of course, it is up to you if you wish to remove HappinessInfusion from browsers and the computer. Luckily, this task is quite simple, and a few straightforward removal steps are enough to get rid of the undesirable toolbar. Read more »

MyFunCards Search refers to the changes of the settings of your Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. If MyFunCard toolbar is installed on your computer, it is very likely that your home page is changed to home.mywebsearch.com. This search engine is promoted by the toolbar in question, which is available at myfuncards.com. Read more »

mystart.incredibar.com is a website that gets set as your default search engine when you install MyStart Incredibar on your computer. It may seem as though your browser gets hijacked by mystart.incredibar.com without your permission, but MyStart Incredibar is a browser extension that does not enter your system surreptitiously. Hence, mystart.incredibar.com is not a malicious website that tries to steal your information or money. However, users are strongly recommended to remove mystart.incredibar.com from their computers, because this is a potentially unwanted application that could be indirectly responsible for various malicious applications entering your PC. Read more »

If the home page of your browsers is changed to searchnu.com, you may think that your computer has been infected with a browser hijacker. The truth is that you must have installed some application that promotes searchnu.com, which is why whenever you try to use a browser, you have no choice but to use searchnu.com.  It is known that the search engine in question is promoted by Bullvid, which is a potentially unwanted application that can be downloaded from various sources. We recommend that you remove searchnu.com from the computer in order not to put your privacy and computer in danger. Read more »

Have you been routed to Go.Findrsearch.com without any prior request? In case this unauthorized web page rerouting continues, you should have no doubts that your operating Windows system has been infected with a malicious browser hijacker. Even though this particular website is administered by BonJoy Software and its services seem completely reliable, you must realize that schemers may use it to hide a malicious browser hijacker. How can you recognize this threat within the computer? Read more »

IsoBuster is a browser extension by Conduit Ltd. that makes use of legitimate software title. The original IsoBuster is recovery software that helps users to recover CD, DVD, Blue Ray disks, as well as data from hard drives and other data storages. IsoBuster toolbar makes use of the original IsoBuster’s logo and makes it seem as though the program is related to the browser extension as well. But that is very unlikely, and you should remove IsoBuster extension from your computer if you did not have any intension to install it. Read more »