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Although it might be difficult to believe, some web browsers are more unreliable than others. Tesla Browser, for example, is quite unreliable because it can replace Google Chrome and install a suspicious browser extension. This strange, potentially unwanted program (PUP) is published by ROSTPAY Ltd, and it can be downloaded from teslabrowser.com. Needless to say, we do not recommend acquiring this program. Of course, it is most likely that you are reading this report after having installed the PUP. Hopefully, you did not install it along with other programs because, in that case, you might have to worry about other infections. Get more information about this, as well as the removal of Tesla Browser in this report. Read more »

VAFGames is a questionable application that has been roaming the web lately. On its official website this program it is advertised as a tool that should provide you with tons of different flash-based online games. If you are an avid player of flash-based games, it might seem like an excellent tool to have. Unfortunately, our research team has come across a few questionable and suspicious features, which were the main reasons this tool has been categorized as a potentially unwanted program. In reality statements claiming how great this program is are a marketing technique that vendors of it use to fool unsuspecting users into downloading and installing this suspicious program. We highly advise you to remove VAFGames as there are no actually good reasons to keep it active on your operating system. Do so by following the removal instructions that we provide below. Read more »

If you are bored with your old, predictable web browsers, you might look for an alternative, and eFast is one of them. This suspicious browser was built using the Chromium engine, which is why it resembles Google Chrome. If this popular, widely used browser was installed onto your PC prior to installing the one created by Clara-Labs (CLARALABSOFTWARE), it will be disabled automatically. Our researchers here at Anti-Spyware-101.com have found that the suspicious, potentially unwanted program can eliminate the shortcuts to Chrome found on your desktop and start menu. On top of that, the strange Chromium-based browser might be set as the default browser. Needless to say, you should remove eFast as soon as you realize that this program has way too many privileges and not enough beneficial services. Read more »

While you can personalize your desktop wallpaper, not many search tools provide that option. Pets by MyWay is an extension that was created by Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. This extension supposedly can help you personalize your homepage, but, instead of being called a useful and fun application, it has gained a reputation of a browser hijacker. This is because this program can change the homepage of your browsers, and, depending on the browser you use, it can do that without your permission. Although we do not identify this strange program as a serious security threat, there is no denying that it is best to remove Pets by MyWay. Read this report to learn more about the process, and, if you have questions, do not hesitate to start a discussion using the comments box below. Read more »

If you have found an application known as VAFMusic active on your operating system, you must know that it cannot be trusted entirely. In fact, our research team has categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program because it exhibits a few suspicious and rather invasive features. On its official website, this program is advertised as a great music player that should allow you to listen to all kinds of music for free. Unfortunately, these statements are rather misleading, since it has been discovered that more often than not this dubious music player can cause various disruptions while you are surfing the web. In reality, such marketing strategy is used to trick naïve Internet users into downloading and installing a program that does not function in the way it should. Below we provide a detailed removal guide that is easy to follow and will help you delete VAFMusic in no time at all. Read more »

ScreensFreak New Tab is yet another questionable application that your research team has come across lately. On its official website vendors’ of this program advertise it as a tool that should help you improve your online experiences in various ways. At first it sounds like a great tool to have active on your PC; unfortunately, it has been discovered that such statements are only used as a marketing gimmick to lure unsuspecting users into downloading and installing an application that in reality does not perform in the way it should. In fact, malware researchers at Anti-Spyware-101.com have dubbed this questionable application as a potentially unwanted program mostly because it works in a quite invasive and suspicious way as well as it is spread in a dubious manner. We highly advise you to remove ScreensFreak New Tab as it holds almost not valuable features. Below we provide a comprehensive removal guide that will help you delete it in no time whatsoever. Read more »

Vendors of Fdownloader promote their product on its official websites as an excellent download manager that should help you manage various download tasks and processes in a more efficient way than ever before. While it sounds like a tool worthy of having you must be warned about its functionality. Malware researchers at our internal labs have, in fact, categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program mostly because it works in a quite suspicious and invasive way. In reality, this download manager does not perform in the way that it should, and its questionable features obviously outweigh the positive ones; thus, we firmly advise you to remove Fdownloader. Our team encourages you to use a different, more reliable download manager instead of this one. Read the rest of this article and find out how this suspicious tool works and why its removal is so important. Read more »

Zeast PC Tuneup claims to be a really useful PC optimization tool, so users do not even think that they have a suspicious program installed on their systems. First of all, this tool promises to remove junk files, program and browser clutter, refresh registry, and delete unnecessary files from the disk. The only thing users have to do is to click on one icon. Even though Zeast PC Tuneup promises to work really beneficially, you should not keep it installed for one main reason - Zeast PC Tuneup is of a really low quality and we do not think that it will act in a beneficial way. We do not recommend keeping untrustworthy tools installed, so we suggest getting rid of Zeast PC Tuneup as soon as possible. We will explain you why you should do that in a more detailed way further in this article. Read more »

DownloaderPlus is a questionable program that may cause you some security issues indirectly. If this application is on your computer, it is quite likely that there are several malware infections on-board as well, including adware programs. Our malware researchers have categorized it as a PUP, a potentially unwanted program, since it does not mean direct danger to your computer and it cannot be considered as a malware threat either. But it does not mean that you can take its presence lightly; on the contrary, we advise you to make up your mind and remove DownloaderPlus from your PC because keeping such an unreliable application on-board might result in more malware infections, to say the least. There is also a chance to be exposed to unsafe websites by third-party advertisements, which might lead to your being scammed by cyber criminals as a worst case scenario. Read more »

TuneJunkies New Tab is a program that is advertised to be a great tool that should help you with various Internet searches; it should help you search for your favorite videos and songs online in a new and effective way. While it sounds like a tool worthy of having at first, you must know that our research team has categorized this application as a potentially unwanted program due to its suspicious and rather invasive functionality. Also, it has been found out that at times this program could be distributed in a questionable way. We firmly believe that the dubious features of this tool outweigh its valuable features; thus, we advise you to remove it as soon as possible. Read the rest of this article and learn how this potentially unwanted program works and why it should be deleted. Below we provide a comprehensive removal guide that will help you get rid of TuneJunkies New Tab in no time at all. Read more »