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International Police Association (IAC) Virus

International Police Association (IAC) Virus

What would you do if you found an intimidating message asking you to pay a fine? This is what International Police Association (IAC) virus will ask you to do after it injects its codes into your PC’s system and disables access to your programs. You will find that the Internet connection is disabled, as well, and this is said to have been done because you have violated copyright laws. Even if you have, the actual International Police Association, more precisely, International Administration Center (IAC) Read more »

Den Svenska Polisen It-sakerhet Ukash

Den Svenska Polisen It-sakerhet Ukash

If you are familiar with the term “ransomware”, you should beware of the latest ransomware infection Den Svenska Polisen It-sakerhet Ukash, which has targeted computers located in Sweden. Like its predecessors, this cunning application disables the computer’s screen in the hope that the user will get scared and pay a ransom fee. Typically, the fine is one hundred dollars, euros or pounds. In this case, 500 kronor is required to unlock the machine, which you should not do but delete Den Svenska Polisen It-sakerhet Ukash. Read more »

Great Antispy 2012

Great Antispy 2012

You may see Great Antispy 2012 antispyware running on your computer; however, that does not mean that you should trust this fictitious program with your system’s security or existing malware removal. The program does look like a legitimate tool, which is easy to navigate around and which seemingly could securely protect your personal computer and digital data within. Do not be fooled by this deceptive first impression, because the application is bogus and has no abilities to accomplish any of the declared tasks. Read more »

Your computer has been locked! Fake DOJ (FBI) warning

You might find yourself being blamed for such horrible crimes as copyrighted material infringement or illegal and unethical abusive video storing by the “Your computer has been locked!” fake DOJ (FBI) warning. This bogus alert will seem to have been sent to you by the FBI Department of Justice, Read more »

Adware.SweetIM

You may be told that Adware.SweetIM is “All About Fun”; however, if you install the SweetIM application to compliment your Windows Live Messenger, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers, you will need to start worrying about this ridiculous program’s removal and fun will be the last thing on your mind. The product supposedly can enhance messaging experiences and is meant to help you express yourself in the virtual space, and sweetim.com Read more »

Trojan.Phex.THAGen6

Trojan.Phex.THAGen6 is a cunning infection that will place your PC in a precarious situation, because this Trojan is able to take control over a computer that is not protected against infections properly. The threat disables current security tools of a computer so as not to be detected and removed, stops system processes, Read more »

Cookie XXXCounter

A tracking cookie, like the cookie XXXCounter, is an application that gets injected into your computer drives by the web sources that you visit. Nowadays, tracking cookies are dropped to your system by many websites, as they can help gather information about your browsing experience, what are your preferences, search results, etc. Ideally, this instrument is supposed to make your browsing and surfing experiences much better, as gathered information can show the host websites what are your interests and what information is preferred by you. Read more »

Codec-C

The World Wide Web is not nearly as safe as you would imagine, and such devious programs as Codec-C could be infiltrated into your personal computer via countless security vulnerabilities. It is possible that this infection would hide behind suspicious links, spam email attachments, bundled downloads and other drive-by downloads or could be installed by already activated malicious programs within the computer. Read more »

YouPorn

YouPorn is a tracking cookie that can be attached to your Internet browser when you visit the youporn.com pornography website. In general, tracking cookies are not critically dangerous and are known to follow any online sources that you visit, as they can gather certain information about your browsing sessions, how much time you spend on certain websites, etc. Read more »

Hotbar Virus

Hotbar Virus

Hotbar is an unnecessary toolbar that generates tons of annoying pop-up messages. The messages displayed to the infected user are not random. They are based on the user’s browsing habits that are monitored by Hotbar. The browser toolbar installed by this adware works on various browsers – Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, Firefox 3.6 and 4.0. We can also presuppose that Hotbar can function on the newest versions of the browsers as well. Read more »