Potentially Unwanted Application - Page 66 category archyve:

SurFilters is a browser extension that can allegedly filter search engines not to display any inappropriate content, such as pornography-related websites, as results. The problem is that our malware researchers have found that this tool installs its search engine as your home page, new tab page as well as your default search engine. This search engine has proved to be potentially unreliable and thus may pose a threat to your system security. Although this particular potentially unwanted program, or PUP, may only affect your Google Chrome browser, it may enter your computer in a free software package that could contain more serious threats as well. According to our malware researchers, you should remove SurFilters if you do not want to face additional security-related issues. Please keep reading for further details. Read more »

Yoga New Tab is a devious program that we highly advise you to avoid at all costs. Even though this application is advertised as a great tool that should improve your overall online experience, you must be aware of the fact that in reality, it does the opposite of that. During our research, it has been discovered that it can make invasive and undesirable changes to your web browser's default settings. This can make surfing the web an annoying and bothersome experience. Due to such intrusive functionality our malware experts have classified it as one more potentially unwanted program that should not be active on your personal computer. To understand why we advise you to delete Yoga New Tab without any hesitation, make sure to read the rest of this report. Below you will find detailed instructions that will help you terminate this dubious program in a quick and easy manner. Read more »

Research has shown that PC Reg Boost is an annoying and possibly unreliable program. It is not malware, yet it shows annoying pop-up windows that you cannot close, so our malware analysts have classified it as a potentially unwanted program. Therefore, you might want to remove it, but it seems that this program’s scan results are reliable, so it can clean up your PC a little bit. However, the annoying thing is that its developers have made this program to show you the pop-up messages and obstruct you computing experience because they are desperate and want you to buy the program or call their tech support number. Read more »

An application entitled The Coupon Store is advertised as a tool that frequent online shoppers should have active on their PC. This is so because it should provide free discount coupons. While this might seem like a tool worthy of having, you should know that the overall functionality of this program is rather questionable. Upon further examination, it has been discovered that it can act in an invasive manner. As it turns out it is capable of making unwanted changes to your web browser's default settings without any warning whatsoever. Due to this, our researchers have classified this application as one more potentially unwanted program. Another reason it has been categorized this way because it could be distributed in devious ways. Read our report to understand why we advise you to remove The Coupon Store if it is ever found up and running on your personal computer. Read more »

PANDAViewer, as its name suggests us, is an image viewer. It is promoted as “a fast, stable, easy to use image viewer for PC, laptop, tablet and smartphone.” It can be downloaded from pandaviewer.com, but users who get it from a third-party source, without a doubt, have the application working the same. It does seem to be a beneficial application at first sight, so it does not surprise researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com that it is becoming more and more popular. To be frank, it is a bad thing because PANDAViewer is not an application that can be trusted fully. Specialists call it a potentially unwanted program (PUP) because it has several drawbacks. Of course, it is far from a malicious application, but it still does not act like a fully decent application. Make a decision yourself whether or not this program can stay installed on your computer. Information provided in the following paragraphs of this article should help you to make up your mind. Read more »

Ultimate Shopping Search is a browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that should give users “a better search experience.” On top of that, it promises to provide “shop recommendations” on the basis of what users are searching for. Generally speaking, it is promoted as a piece of software that can improve the web searching experience. Because of this, there are more than 50 000 users who have installed it from the Chrome Web store. It should be quite popular among Mozilla Firefox users too. Although it is promoted as a beneficial application, Ultimate Shopping Search is not exactly what it claims to be. It is not just our opinion – the in-depth analysis has shown that this application is not as decent as it might seem to be at first sight. Because of this, it has been categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) by researchers at anti-spyware-101.com. All its drawbacks are listed in the next three paragraphs, whereas the last paragraph focuses on its removal – read it if you come to a decision to replace it with another program. Read more »

NSBlock is a questionable program that you may not even know how it sneaked onto your computer and you could only realize its presence if you notice the system tray icon it displays or if you check the running processes in Task Manager. This program is supposed to be a security application preventing you from visiting malicious websites so that you avoid infecting your computer or becoming a victim of an online scam. However, our tests show that this potentially unreliable program may not really work properly. In fact, our malware specialists at anti-spyware-101.com say that it is hard to say anything specific about the functioning of this tool. Since it does not seem to pose a direct and dangerous threat to your system, we have labeled it as a potentially unwanted program, or PUP. But you still should not let your guards down because this PUP may download and install questionable applications in the background, which might put your system security at risk. It is up to you, of course, what you want to do with this application. Our advice is to remove NSBlock from your computer for safety reasons. But before you scroll down the page for our solution, let us present to you what we have found out about this application. Read more »

Officially, WikiThemes is a dedicated Internet search application that is supposed to be an alternative to your web browser. However, you might consider removing it because it is next to useless. Our cyber security experts have concluded that this program is not malicious, but it can be installed on your PC without your knowledge or consent because it comes bundled with third-party software installers that can install it on your PC while installing other software. We know for sure that you will not benefit from having this program whatsoever, but if you need proof, then you can read this whole description and find out. Read more »

LiveRadioSweeper Toolbar is a newly-released product of Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. Although it has been developed recently, it seems that it has already shown up on a number of computers, judging from all these complaints users make. Some people believe that this piece of software is very beneficial and download it from liveradiosweeper.com/index.jhtml or a third-party website voluntarily, whereas others find it installed on their computers without their knowledge. LiveRadioSweeper Toolbar is just a potentially unwanted program (PUP), so it is not very likely that it is capable of entering computers silently without telling anything to anyone. In any event, do not even consider whether you should keep this application installed or not if you do not like it for any reason or you have not installed it willingly on your computer. Potentially unwanted programs are not hard to erase because they are far from real malicious applications (malware). Unfortunately, researchers still associate them with certain issues, which is why keeping them installed is not recommended. Read more »

CreateDocsOnline Toolbar is a new product of Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. As a consequence, it has been put into the category of Mindspark Toolbars. Like other applications developed by this company, it is promoted as a useful tool. It claims to be a free alternative to MS Office programs. To be frank, it works quite well. Users can access Zoho tools for creating documents in different formats (e.g. .pptx, .pdf, .txt, .odt, and others) online. Therefore, specialists do not think that it would be fair to call it a malicious application. In their opinion, the more suitable category for CreateDocsOnline Toolbar would be a potentially unwanted program (PUP) because it does not do anything really harmful, but it still cannot be trusted fully and might be associated with certain issues. If you are still not sure what to do with this potentially unwanted application installed on your computer, you should continue reading this article – the provided information will help you to make up your mind. Read more »