If you find a suspicious and, at the same time, scary blue screen on your desktop claiming that you have to enter your Windows Product Key, a malware infection called Windows Support. Call TollFree: +1 -855-441-4421 may have slithered onto your computer. This fake error message has only one purpose and that is to trick you into paying money for an unnecessary and probably useless technical service or software. According to our malware researchers at anti-spyware-101.com, this infection is very similar to Windows Security Alert! 1-888-220-3607, which is also a technical support scam. The idea behind such a scam is that you are made feel hopeless and helpless by a fake error message and you will be likely to call the given toll free telephone number, which, by the way, may not be free at all. If you want to be able to use your computer and use it safely, we recommend that you delete Windows Support. Call TollFree: +1 -855-441-4421 ASAP. For the details, please continue reading our article. Read more »
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VKAudio
VKAudio is an application that is targeted at those who live in Russia and have the account on Vkontakte (one of the most popular social-networking sites in Russia). It says that it will enable users to “search, add and listen to your favorite music in popup for free, even offline.” In other words, it should allow users to listen to the music stored in the libraries of Vkontakte while browsing other websites. Sadly, the program is not as beneficial as it claims to be. In fact, researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com know it as an ad-supported program (adware). Yes, it will, most probably, show irritating commercial advertisements on users’ screens. They might ruin your browsing session completely and even expose you to potential threats. Thus, it is definitely worth uninstalling this adware from the system. Continue reading to find out how to do that easily and quickly. Read more »
FunTVTab
Our security researchers indicate FunTVTab as a browser hijacker. This implies that the program meddles with your browser settings without your permission. Consequently, this may expose you to dangerous third-party content that could lead to malware infection. Thus, it is clear that to protect your computer and your personal information from malicious exploitation and other illegal activity; you should remove FunTVTab as soon as possible. The removal guide is provided below this article, although you should also pay attention to the malware distribution vectors so that you would be able to avoid similar infections in the future. After all, such programs often travel in waves. Read more »
Search.searchhdrp.com
Search.searchhdrp.com should be set as your default search engine by an extension known as HD Radio Player New Tab. Therefore, the program was categorized as a browser hijacker. Its description says that the extension will allow you to access favorite online radio channels, but in reality, it does not work this way. The extension adds a button to your browser that only loads Search.searchhdrp.com if you click it. We would not recommend using this search engine since it might add suspicious third-party links and ads to your results. Most likely, the software’s developers receive advertising revenue if you click these ads. We are almost one hundred present sure that you will not receive anything beneficial if you continue using Search.searchhdrp.com. For that reason, our researchers prepared a manual removal guide that is available at the end of this article. Read more »
home.searchreveal.com
Search Reveal is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that promotes home.searchreveal.com. It is said that this extension will provide users with interesting widgets and enable them to check the time, weather forecast, and surf the web straight from the New Tab, so it is not very surprising that some users download and install the extension willingly. Unfortunately, users often do not even suspect that their homepages, search engines, and New Tab pages will be changed to home.searchreveal.com after the installation of the extension. To be honest, home.searchreveal.com is not a trustworthy search engine, and it is even quite dangerous to use it as the primary search tool because it is known that it might quickly expose users to threats. To protect your computer from harm, you need to remove the Search Reveal extension from your Google Chrome browser. Yes, fortunately, this extension affects only this browser. Read more »
Time-to-read.ru
Time-to-read.ru happens to be a browser hijacker that installs itself without your permission and then modifies your browser’s settings. Browser hijacker is a type of malicious software that is often hard to categorize. Depending on the developer and the distribution method, it might be complicated to determine whether the application is legitimate or harmful. Nevertheless, it is always easy to decide whether you need to remove a program or not by considering the fact whether you need it or not. You clearly did not want Time-to-read.ru on your computer, so the best thing you can do right now is remove it for good. Read more »
Payms Ransomware
Payms Ransomware is a serious threat if it manages to “set foot” on your operating system. This ransomware seems to be a new variant of Jigsaw Ransomware, which is reported to be sold on the Dark Web for $139. Infecting your system with this malware serves only one purpose: To extort money from you for decrypting your files. So after encrypting your personal files practically in all directories, you are informed about the payment method. This is a sensitive matter whether you pay or not and is totally up to you. But we do not recommend paying since these criminals may not decrypt your files even if you pay and there could be technical failures too in this process, which could sabotage the decryption. Also consider what your files are worth to you because a few old documents and pictures may not be a big loss. As a matter of fact, you should also be able to find a working file recovery tool since our malware experts at anti-spyware-101.com say that the decrypter used for Jigsaw has been updated and should work for this ransomware as well. Nevertheless, most importantly, you should remove Payms Ransomware right away in order to stop this nightmare. Read more »
Backdoor.teamviewer
Backdoor.teamviewer is a malicious program that might be used to infect your computer with other malware or use it as a proxy. In other words, the cyber criminals behind the program could exploit your computer for illegal activities or attacks on other systems. If you have Backdoor.teamviewer on your computer, you should erase it as soon as possible. Luckily, our researchers at Anti-spyware-101.com tested this malicious program and found a way to remove it manually. Therefore, if you are up for this task, you can scroll below the text and check the removal instructions. However, if you do not think that you can delete it by yourself, you should download a legitimate antimalware tool and let it erase this threat. Read more »
Russian Eda2 Ransomware
Russian Eda2 Ransomware is an open-source ransomware infection that was first released publicly for educational purposes (at least, it is said so). Even though the original Russian Eda2 Ransomware project was abandoned 5 months ago, cyber criminals still use the code of this ransomware to create other similar infections. Unfortunately, the code is available on github.com and accessible to anyone, so it is very likely that other ransomware infections based on Russian Eda2 Ransomware will be released in the future too. It will be immediately clear for you that you have encountered a ransomware infection because files you keep on your computer will all be encrypted and you could no longer access them. It is not very likely that you will encounter the original Russian Eda2 Ransomware; however, its other versions are still prevalent on the web these days and you might encounter them. If you do, eliminate the variant of Russian Eda2 Ransomware that affected your computer immediately even though it tells you that you need to pay money for gaining access to files it has locked. Read more »
Search.Moccini.com
If you have recently installed Moccini Desktop widget that promises to enhance users’ web-experience, it is not surprising that you see search.Moccini.com on your Internet Explorer and Google Chrome browsers. To be more specific, your default search engine, homepage, and New Tab page will be replaced by this search engine if you install Moccini, so you will see it every day and have to use it to find the information on the web. Specialists suggest getting rid of this questionable search engine because it is somehow associated with such untrustworthy search engines as snap.do and search.safefinder.com. In addition, you will only be allowed to set a new homepage, search engine, and New Tab page if you fully remove search.Moccini.com from the system. If you have no idea how to get rid of this questionable search engine now, we are sure that it will be clear what you need to do to eliminate search.Moccini.com and the piece of software that promotes it after reading the article till the end. Read more »
