If your browser’s homepage has suddenly been changed to Search.searchlivesportson.com, then we want you to know that your browser has been infected with a browser hijacker. Indeed, Search.searchlivesportson.com is not a legitimate search engine, but a hijacker whose objective is to replace your browser’s homepage address. We recommend that you remove it because of the fact that it does that. However, we also want to point out that this hijacker was configured to collect information about you and also show promotional links and ads in its search results. Ads are a big part of this hijacker as they generate ad revenue that pays for maintaining the servers and also fund the creation of new hijackers. Read more »
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Search.easyrecipesnow.com
Posted by Lisa Blanc
on July 3, 2017
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Search.easyrecipesnow.com is yet another devious browser hijacker that is known to be roaming the web nowadays. If you ever encounter it while surfing the web, make sure to avoid it at all costs as it exhibits intrusive and otherwise devious functionality. Just like any other application of this classification, this one can make invasive and undesirable changes to your web browser's default settings without any warning. In turn that will make surfing the web a much more annoying and frustrating task than you are used to. Unfortunately, that is not the worst thing about this browser hijacker. Upon further analysis, our malware experts have discovered that in some cases it could be the primary reason your operating system might be subjected to potentially harmful web content. To understand how that could happen and how this hijacker works, make sure to read the rest of our article. Below you will also find a detailed removal guide that will help you delete Search.easyrecipesnow.com. Read more »
Movie2k Ads
Posted by Lisa Blanc
on June 30, 2017
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Movie2k Ads are irritating commercial advertisements promoting the video streaming service Movie2k (http://movie2k.io/). Since these ads open the registration form, we suspect that they are distributed to attract more users and increase the number of people using the service. These irritating ads do not come from http://movie2k.io/ directly. Instead, users see pop-up advertisements promoting this service from the domain playcapt.com. There are several possible reasons why you see them open on your screen with Movie2k Ads. First, you keep clicking on an untrustworthy link opening the advertising domain. Second, you visit a website which redirects straight to the playcapt.com advertising domain with Movie2k Ads. Third, you might have an untrustworthy application, most probably an ad-supported program, working on your computer. Adware programs open advertising servers to users automatically so that its developer could get the advertising revenue. Of course, you will get nothing even if you are the one seeing irritating advertisements. Actually, the only thing that these ads can bring is the diminished browsing experience, so removing them from the screen is highly recommended. If you still see them when you close websites you browse and do not open them again, it means that they are, most likely, shown on your screen due to the presence of malware. We will talk about its removal further in this article. Read more »
Traffic-media.co
Posted by Max Lehmann
on June 30, 2017
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Traffic-media.co is something known as an adware server. If while surfing the web you are seeing an unusual amount of third-party ads powered by Traffic-media.co it could be an indication that a devious program is up and fully running on your operating system. In the majority of cases connectivity to such as a server is initiated by an ad-supported program. It goes without saying that having an application like that active on your PC could have undesirable outcomes since it could make surfing the web a much more annoying and frustrating experience. What is even worse is the fact that some ads or pop-ups coming from this devious server could prove to be rather dangerous as they could subject your operating system to questionable and even malicious web content. To learn more about the potential danger of being in connection with an adware server, read the rest of our report. Below we also present a generic removal guide that will help you delete a program linked to Traffic-media.co in no time at all. Read more »
MoWare H.F.D Ransomware
Posted by Lisa Blanc
on June 30, 2017
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MoWare H.F.D Ransomware was first spotted at the end of May of 2017. This relatively recent ransomware is yet another addition to the Hidden-Tear ransomware family. It was designed to encrypt your files but it does not work for some reason and, in fact, many ransomware infections that belong to this family often do not work for one reason or another. Of course, you should remove MoWare H.F.D Ransomware before its server comes back online and it receives instructions to encrypt your files. For more information, please continue reading. Read more »
Cry36 Ransomware
Posted by Sarah Stewart
on June 29, 2017
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The Cry36 ransomware is an infection that locks you out of your system and keeps your files hostage until you pay the ransom. The sad truth is that after paying the money required the encrypted files are very likely to remain inaccessible. The Cry36 ransomware should be treated as a serious security issue, so we encourage you to take action to remove it from the computer.
The Cry36 ransomware is part of a ransomware family that also includes similar infections dubbed Cry9, Cry128, Dharma, and Crypton, also known as Nemisis. All these Trojan horses have similar characteristics; however, each of them is unique at the same time because there are some distinctive features. One of them is that the Cry36 ransomware makes encrypted files bigger in size compared to their original copies. Research on the ransomware has revealed that the infection increases the size of the affected files by 36 bytes. Alongside this characteristic, there are several more, and interested readers are encouraged to continue reading to get the view of how this nasty piece of malware works. Read more »
Webdown-loader.com
Posted by Lisa Blanc
on June 29, 2017
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Webdown-loader.com does not have any Privacy Policy, End User License, or Terms of Use documents, so we would advise you to be careful with this search tool. Especially, when it is categorized as a browser hijacker. Moreover, the research shows it could be distributed through malicious pop-up ads shown by other threats, and it could introduce users to potentially harmful third-party advertisements. Therefore, we do not think any user who cares about the computer’s safety would like to keep such a suspicious tool in his system. If you do not plan on taking any chances with Webdown-loader.com either, we encourage you to have a look at the removal instructions added at the end of the text. Also, in order to get to know this threat a little better, we advise reading the rest of the article as well. Read more »
Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup
Posted by Sarah Stewart
on June 29, 2017
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Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup is one more fake alert that acts in an extremely invasive manner. If you have encountered it, you must take immediate action to remove the program responsible for it. This is crucial since due to the fake error message, you will not be able to use your computer the way you are used to. Also, this alert could lead to other serious virtual security problems. To have a better understanding of how it works, in this article we provide detailed information regarding the intricate inner workings behind it. Alongside such information, we also present virtual security tips that will help you maintain a fully secure operating system at all times. Finally, below we provide an in-depth removal guide that will allow you to delete a malicious program responsible for prompting the Windows Health Is Critical FAKE Tech Support popup fake alert. Read more »
Llssoft
Posted by Lisa Blanc
on June 29, 2017
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Llssoft is a recently discovered Trojan that can infect your PC as a result of you installing a malicious software bundle. Indeed, its developers use deceptive distribution methods to get it onto your PC. Evidently, removing this program is necessary to ensure your computer’s security. Cyber security experts say that this Trojan is malicious because it was designed to display unreliable commercial advertisements that can potentially jeopardize your computer’s security. As if that was not enough, this Trojan is also set to collect information about you that we think is used for advertising purposes. For more information, please read this whole article. Read more »
StrutterGear Ransomware
Posted by Sarah Stewart
on June 29, 2017
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StrutterGear Ransomware seems to be a dangerous malicious threat in progress so it may not spread too widely just yet. Still, it is important for us to report what we have found out about this malicious program that could be your next nightmare once it is finished. Our malware specialists at anti-spyware-101.com say that this new threat is a new variant of the infamous Jigsaw Ransomware. We have seen a few infections rise from this malware, including Anonymous Ransomware and Payms Ransomware. Although this new version has all the capabilities of the original ransomware, right now it does not seem to encrypt any of your files. This means that you do not need to panic because whatever the rather obscene ransom note say may only describe a future version. So you can forget about paying hundreds of dollars for the decryption key. But even if this ransomware does not harm your files, you cannot leave this attack unaddressed. We recommend that you remove StrutterGear Ransomware ASAP if you do not want to risk any further security issues related to this threat. Read more »
