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Interpol Departament of Cybercrime Virus

Interpol Departament of Cybercrime Virus

Cyber criminals have set out to fool thousands of computer users with their newest latent ransomware Interpol Departament of Cybercrime virus which works in the same manner as Gendarmerie Nationale Virus, International Police Association (IAC) virus and a great number of other Paysafecard viruses. This time schemers are spreading out wider than usual as their devious virus is no longer targeted at a specific country and aims to tick communities all over the world. Read more »

Trojan.Nitol.A

It is really difficult to fight an infection you cannot see. Trojan.Nitol.A is good at hiding itself and inflicting damage on the target system. This Trojan does not differ much from other Trojan infections, making it a rather generic threat. However, that does not mean you should not take Trojan.Nitol.A seriously. In fact, you should perform system scan periodically to make sure you remove Trojan.Nitol.A in the early stages of the infection. Read more »

HackTool:Win32/Keygen

The infamous HackTool:Win32/Keygen, or Troj/Keygen, has been traveling all across the World Wide Web for over tree years now. This treacherous application has been created for a truly devious purpose, which is to generate license keys for applications that get downloaded illegally. Despite this unlawful mission, the fraudulent application can do much more than you will initially expect, Read more »

SearchYa Toolbar

SearchYa Toolbar

If you do not like browser extensions or ad-ons, you will not like SearchYa Toolbar either, because this application does not help you to browse the Internet more quickly, but creates a lot of obstacles to access desired web pages. The cunning hijacker typically comes into the system with compromised freeware or other applications, and you may find it on your internet browsers after rebooting the computer. Typically, SearchYa Toolbar affects such browsers as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Read more »

Gendarmerie Nationale Virus

Gendarmerie Nationale Virus

Gendarmerie Nationale Virus is a French ransomware infection which is also a clone of the well-known Ukash virus that turns the victimized computer’s processing upside down, because the threat disables access to the desktops programs, does not allow the user to browser the Internet, and claims that these measures are taken because illegal activities have been carried on from the computer. Read more »

Dorifel Virus

Dorifel virus, or XDocCrypt/Dorifel, is a malicious infection, which can reconfigure your system’s settings, remove administrative privileges and eventually encrypt digital data to make most of your system’s files inaccessible, with an illusion of being deleted from the computer. This irritating system’s state is supposed to make it impossible for you to remove XDocCrypt/Dorifel or even detect it running inside Windows. Read more »

Galileo System Cleaner

Galileo System Cleaner

Galileo System Cleaner is the exact replica of the recently reviewed Great Antispy 2012, so it is safe to say that both of these infections are being managed by the same virtual criminals. Even though the devious rogue antispyware was first reported in the end of 2011, operating Windows systems all across the globe are still being attacked by the truly irritating and misleading application. Read more »

Paysafecard Virus

Paysafecard Virus

There are tens of different Paysafecard Virus forms, geographically targeted at computer owners living in Canada, U.S., Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Poland and other European countries. The infection is a ransomware which enters a computer, locks the screen, disabling your access to the computer, and then presents a misleading warning asking to pay a fine to have the computer unlocked. Read more »

Police Virus

Police Virus

Police Virus is a type of ransomware that locks you out of your desktop and then demands a fine for a crime you haven't committed. Usually Police Virus gets into your system via spam email, bulk downloads or infected websites. What you have to know is that Police Virus is a part of a huge ransomware family under the name of Ukash Virus, that encompasses infections targeted at multinational users. Other infections similar to Police Virus include FBI Moneypak, Metropolitan Police Virus, Cuerpo National De Policia Virus, Read more »

Cookie Adultfriendfinder

The tracking cookie adultfriendfinder derives from the adultfriendfinder.com, a dating website for single men and women. This application is supposed to collect certain data about your experience within the website; however, it has been researched that the tool may also be employed by cyber criminals to gather highly sensitive data. The illegal processes might be activated whilst you login to the aforementioned website; however, Read more »