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PPass is a potentially unwanted program that might enter your computer unexpectedly. This application is not a malicious infection, so it cannot cripple your system. However, it can collect information about your computer and share it with unreliable third parties. It is important that you remove PPass from your system as soon as possible, as it is hard to say who else could be using this application. While you are at it, you should also invest in a licensed security product that will protect your system from other undesirable programs in the future. Potential threats are always right behind the corner. Read more »

NewNoteCenter Toolbar is a useless and potentially risky browser extension that offers you to "quickly take notes and create task lists"; however, since this tool was created by the infamous Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc., you should not have your hopes high. Our malware experts at anti-spyware-101.com say that this browser extension is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) just like any of its predecessors, including AtoZManuals Toolbar and FileConvertOnline Toolbar. This team has been a very productive one and has created dozens of useless tools that can pose a threat to your system security. This PUP changes your browser settings to install its featured search website containing its toolbar as your new home page and new tab page. This tool does not seem to change the default search engine setting. Still, it can expose you to questionable content any time you open your main browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer, or when you open a new tab. This PUP promotes a potentially unreliable search engine that may present to you modified search results containing questionable third-party ads and links. Therefore, we suggest that you remove NewNoteCenter Toolbar from your browsers even if you may think that taking notes and creating lists could be a useful thing. Read more »

Have you recently started seeing more advertisements than usual? If you have, is it possible that an advertising-supported program called Macbright is active on your Mac operating system? If it has been dropped onto your system without your permission, you might not know that it exists. Since identifying malware can be difficult, it is our strong recommendation that you install a malware scanner you can trust. This tool will quickly examine the operating system and the files and software found on it. If you are informed that you need to delete Macbright, the chances are that you will be introduced to other unfamiliar and unwanted programs that also require removal. That is because this suspicious adware does not seem to spread on its own, and it is most likely that it is spread via software bundles carrying a bunch of different programs together. Hopefully, the threats found on your PC are not dangerous or complicated, and you can get rid of them all by yourself. Read more »

AtoZManuals Toolbar is a browser extension that, supposedly, offers you access to thousands of PDF manuals to various gadgets, and software. While it may provide you with the manuals, you should also know that it will replace your browser’s homepage with its promoted search engine. Furthermore, both this extension and that search engine will collect information about you and show commercial advertisements. While ads are not a problem by themselves, we are concerned that some of them can be malicious and potentially jeopardize your computer’s security. Therefore, we recommend that you remove this application from your PC/browser as soon as possible. Read more »

If Yoga Search Extension invades your operating system, it immediately wreaks havoc, all in the hopes of making you use a modified Google Chrome browser. If Google Chrome is the browser you use, you might think that something has hijacked it, but that is not the case. In reality, a shortcut to your Google Chrome browser is created, and the Target is modified to open the unreliable extension, which our Anti-Spyware-101.com research team classifies as a potentially unwanted program (PUP). The only purpose behind this add-on is to expose you to unreliable search results that are shown after redirecting to https://search.yahoo.com/search?p={searchTerms}&xpubz=8z108mno&r=yy62f009mvb12&trk=b1v30 without authorization. Although Yahoo Search is known as a legitimate search engine, the PUP can modify the results shown via it, and, unfortunately, these results could be very misleading and malicious. That is why you should delete Yoga Search Extension right away. Our research team has created a guide that will help you better understand this threat and its elimination, so keep reading. Read more »

Rutube Extension is not a browser extension you should keep installed on your Google Chrome browser despite the fact that it promises to grant free access to a collection of Russian TV shows. Some users might find this extension quite useful, but the majority of people who install it on their web browsers decide to remove it sooner or later because they realize that this browser extension is not as beneficial as it claims to be. It only opens a minimized version of rutube.ru, a Russian website containing information/news about Russian TV shows. This website can be easily opened without Rutube Extension, so we see no point in keeping it active. Specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com say that users should remove Rutube Extension from their web browsers not only because it is not very useful. Research has shown that it might also collect information about users, and it often affects users’ web browsers without getting permission from them. We hope that you will decide to remove this extension from your browser after reading this description – it will reveal all its darkest secrets. Read more »

BrowserIO is an unreliable application that you can get accidentally because we have received a user report that it can enter your PC after clicking a fake Social Security website link. This program is not malicious per se, but we find it untrustworthy as it does not do anything useful and can end up on your PC without your knowledge or consent. Therefore, we recommend that you remove it from your computer at your earliest convenience. We are not saying that it can put your PC at risk, but there is just no point keeping a gimmicky application on questionable origin. For more information, please continue reading. Read more »

Always Weather is  a free browser extension that provides you with information about the weather in real time and also shows a forecast for 5 days. The application identifies your location, and you can also add extra locations of your interest manually. The seemingly useful and safe browser extension falls to the category of potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) and, hence, can be removed from the computer by certain anti-malware programs. The reasons why this application should not be trusted blindly are discussed further, but, if you have already determined to remove Always Weather for your computer, the instructions below will help you do so in no time. Read more »

Edematousliterature Extension might sound like an innocent browser plug-in that should improve your Chrome browser’s functionality. Nevertheless, computer security experts maintain that this app is a potentially unwanted program, and as such it should not be welcomed on your computer.  Perhaps you were not aware of the fact that this extension was added to your browser in the first place. Whatever it might be, you should do everything you can to protect your system from harm. And removing Edematousliterature Extension would definitely be included in your to-do list. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us by leaving a comment below. Read more »

If you have no idea where Ysearch Tab has come from, it is most likely that it has corrupted your Mozilla Firefox browser without your permission. We classify this extension as a potentially unwanted program (PUP), but not because it can be installed without the user’s notice. We recommend looking at it as a potential threat because it can showcase modified search results via Yahoo Search. Also, it appears that this add-on tries to pass itself as a product by Yahoo, and so you have to be cautious. Needless to say, this add-on does not deserve to be on your operating system, and we advise that you remove it as soon as possible. If you have no clue how to delete Ysearch Tab from Mozilla Firefox, we suggest reading this report and following the instructions that are available below. If any questions pop up while reading this report, use the comments section below to add them for our research team. Read more »