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Boravid Extension is usually referred to as a potentially unwanted application although it claims to be very beneficial. Information available on its official website searchied.club tells users that it will enable them to get the best Vimeo recordings, so it should not be very surprising that there are many users who download and install it deliberately from its official website or the Chrome Web store (chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/boravid/hfdoheckfalhlbmbdlkcnblmegajlafg?hl=en-US). Of course, there are people who cannot explain why they have this Chrome extension installed too. No matter you have downloaded it willingly or it has sneaked onto your computer in a software bundle, you should know that it is advisable to remove this extension because it is not fully trustworthy and might perform undesirable activities. Read the next two paragraphs to find out why it has been classified as a potentially unwanted program and then make up your mind whether or not it can stay. We hope that you will arrive at a rational decision. Read more »

Fastfreshtabs is an application that it can reload all of your open tabs with a press of a button. However, apart from the fact that it has no practical value, it is also a potentially unwanted program (PUP). We classified this program as a PUP because it comes bundled with bad software downloaders that install it on your PC secretly. Therefore, you might want to remove this application. Then again, it is not malicious, so you can keep it if you really want to. However, there is no reason to have this application as it does not offer anything useful. Read more »

Combotab plugin is a potentially unwanted program that looks like an application that can improve your web browsing experience. Of course, you probably do not even know why this application is there on your computer, and how it managed to enter your PC. If you care about your system’s stability, you will see to it that Combotab plugin gets removed immediately. Of course, this plug-in cannot destroy your system or steal your personal information, but you should be really careful about the third-party content you encounter via this application. Even the most trivial issues could lead to serious computer security problems, so you should not take your chances. Read more »

Gifables is a questionable application that should not be active on your operating system. We advise you to do so because it has been classified as one more potentially unwanted program. If you ever happen to come across this application, make sure to avoid it. It is important to note that on its official website this dubious program is advertised as a great tool that should help you view and share gifs in an easier manner. While it might seem like a great application to have active on your personal computer, you must know that it can make surfing the web a much more annoying and frustrating experience. It is also important to note that in some instances this dubious program might be spread in suspicious ways. To understand why we advise you to delete Gifables, make sure to read the rest of our detailed report. To do so, be sure to follow the instructions that we provide below. Read more »

My Privacy Search Extension is a potentially unwanted application that may change your browser’s settings without your permission. As a result, you may face various security issues that could slow down your computer and even expose you to potentially malicious content. To protect your system and your personal information from potential exploitation, you should remove My Privacy Search Extension from your computer immediately. It is not complicated to delete this application manually, but if you do not feel confident about it, you can always rely on a licensed antispyware tool that will terminate unwanted applications and protect your computer from harm. Read more »

Best Ziper is a supposedly legitimate file archiving application. However, we have classified it as a potentially unwanted program and suggest removing it because it is not as useful as you might think. Our cyber security experts at Anti-spyware-101.com have concluded that this particular application was designed to launch other programs that show commercial advertisements on your web browser while you browse the Internet. While its actions are not considered malicious, it is clear that this program was designed with web monetization in mind, so it will not provide you with a reliable file archiving feature. To find out more about this program, please read this whole article. Read more »

DirectionsOnline is promoted as an application that can help you get directions, avoid traffic, find the best gas prices, and so on. However, all of these gimmicky features are there to hide the fact that its true purpose is to replace your browser’s homepage with its promoted search engine that is capable of collecting information about you and displaying advertisements in its search results. Given that the ads can be of malicious nature, we suggest that you remove this program as soon as possible. Therefore, it would be best if you avoid getting this browser extension, so let us take a look at how its developers distribute it. Read more »

WiseFolderLock is an application you might find installed on your computer illegally because it travels in software bundles. Of course, you could have downloaded it willingly from the web too, but this, to be frank, does not change the fact that this application cannot be called fully trustworthy. Specialists working at anti-spyware-101.com say after carrying out research that users should consider the WiseFolderLock removal because it is a potentially unwanted program, or PUP. Even though it is not a malicious application, there are two reasons why it has fallen into the category of potentially unwanted software. First, it might enter computers bundled with software belonging to third parties without permission. Second, it is impossible to erase it fully using Control Panel. Last but not least, some users claim that they see ads on their screens after installing this program (we cannot confirm that this program really displays commercials). We cannot force you to delete this program, but we highly recommend getting rid of it and then installing reputable software with similar features. Keeping an untrustworthy program installed is always a bad idea because they might be updated one day and start acting even more harshly. Read more »

We highly advise you to avoid an application that goes by the name of mixGames Search. While it is advertised as a tool that should improve your online searchers, you should know that in reality it has been classified as one more potentially unwanted program that should not be active on your operating system. Such classification has been made because this piece of software exhibits dubious functionality, to put it lightly. Having it fully active on your operating system will make surfing the web a much more annoying and frustrating experience, to say the least. Another major reason our research team has categorized it as a potentially unwanted program is the fact that it could be distributed in devious and even potentially dangerous ways. To find out more about mixGames Search and its suspicious inner workings, make sure to read the rest of this report. Alongside such information, we provide a detailed removal guide. Read more »

Air Media Player is a new application that offers you video watching features; however, after careful and deep testing, our malware specialists at anti-spyware-101.com say that this software is far from functioning and reliable either. In fact, we have concluded that this is a potentially unwanted program (PUP) that might pose a potential threat to your system even if not directly. Unfortunately, this PUP may bring a few unwanted surprises on board. We have found that this questionable application could be used to spread adware programs and other useless PUPs. Since this software does not even seem to work at all as promised, we believe that you should not hesitate to remove Air Media Player from your system along with all other related and unrelated threat sources as well. If you do not want to be exposed to questionable third-party content and let more infections onto your PC or worse, you should not leave even potentially risky applications on your computer. For further information regarding this PUP and how you could protect your PC from similar headaches, please read on. Read more »