Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
Subnote: This post was originally created in September 2015, but we gave it an update in October 2019. Malware Protection Live is a very suspicious application that pretends to protect your PC from malware and to feature a live shield.…
System Healer is a suspicious cleaning and optimizing program that is believed to exhibit exaggerated system error detections to make users upgrade for ‘full’ or ‘licensed’ version by paying. It involves annoying pop-ups on the desktop of the affected computer,…
JollyWallet is yet another ad-supported and unverified browser add-on that interferes with the user’s experience by displaying annoying advertisements. Originally, the application claims it will help the user with new applications. Jolly Wallet may promise to improve your online shopping…
Beware, virus infections have increased, concerning a ransomware trojan, resembling the Dutch legitimate music rights protection organization Buma Stemra. Compared to the malicious virus that infects the user’s files and displays fear-inducing messages to average computer users in different languages…
Bing.com is one of the best search engines in the world, and it has a huge user database. This makes it a perfect opportunity for viruses, such as Bing redirect virus. Similar to Google Redirect Virus, this particular threat is…
A browser hijacker, related to the suspicious Qvo6.com web page that uses redirects to Google results and employs cookies to track user information has been reported to be detected on over 600,000 PCs for the last two months. This potentially…
A suspicious program has appeared going by the name Desktop Bar. Security researchers classify it as a potentially unwanted program and are convinced this app is ad-supported and closely cooperates with third-parties for profit-generating purposes. Desktop bar employs different tracking…
Similar to DNS Unlocker, DNS Unblocker is yet another adware pretending to provide a useful service to the user. However, reports have recently increased about DNS Unblocker displaying advertised content in an annoying manner. In case you see intrusive pop-ups…
Ah, if it isn’t the Facebook virus variants that have been reported to post on the users behalf. Its variants are spread so often that there may be a chance one of every three people to have seen them. The…
Online security software keeps identifying a threat going by the name of HTML/ScrInject.B.Gen. It is reported to be associated with some websites and many users tend to believe that it is a false positive, i.e. not a real threat due…
This particular type of trojan is reported by ESG security researchers to distribute mainly via drive-by downloads in the form of Java or Flash Player updates. It could also be embedded with free software downloaded from unfamiliar third parties. It…
This type of cyber threat is extremely harmful to the user because it creates multiple files of unknown origin with malicious purposes. These specific threat types are not very popular at the moment on a global scale. However, online security…
This new ransomware Trojan belongs to the Police Ransomware family of Trojans. This group of Trojans is specially created to induce fear in your average inexperienced user by posing as a law enforcement notification service. ESG malware researchers have established…
A dangerous malware infection has been detected out in the wild. It is called CoreBot, and it can cause a lot of havoc and headaches to many users. It is focused mainly on stealing information without any restrictions what so…
Reports have been raised about a ransomware virus, infecting numerous systems, connected with the name sos@anointernet.com. This type of attack is a new type of online extortion designed to encrypt your files and put a suspicious extension on them (for…
A new type of trojan going by the name of TrojanDownloader:Autoit/Fadef has been reported to infect numerous PCs worldwide. This particular trojan horse is a downloader type, meaning that it modifies individual permissions that allow it to download and install…
Similar to ShieldPlus Privacy Protector, ShieldPlus Cleaner is a rogue PC clean-up program that may exhibit exaggerated ‘Error Found!’ type of alerts on the user PC. This is most likely conducted with the purpose of generating profit. It may vary…
Antivirus Blocking Rules is used by many threats with the sole purpose to bypass cyber security in computers -anti-malware, antivirus, firewalls. Antivirus Blocking Rules may be quite damaging because very dangerous threats employ them without any restriction what so ever.…
Cyber-threat investigators report a fraudulent PC optimizing tool including a hard drive defragmenter, going by the name Smart PC Cleaner. This software claims to improve users’ computers by optimizing data and defragmenting their hard drives. But, according to experts from…
PC Bug Repair is regarded by Enigma security experts to be a rogue security program. The software is believed to use many strategies, including exaggeration to convince PC users to purchase its ‘full’ or ‘licensed’ version. The scheming program is…
