What is Your-home-page.net Virus? Your-home-page.net Virus has been deemed to be a browser hijacker. This means that it will take over your browser and change your default home page and search engine. The purpose of this intruder is to promote…
A Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) appeared on the cyber-security ‘radar’, carrying the name Torque Challenger. It may come as a browser add-on, and some users report it to display possibly annoying pop-up advertisements that include various messages and invitations. Such…
A new ad-related program that appears to hijack possibly all browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome) installed on the user PC has appeared by the name of HighlightSearches. The program may claim that it takes the user to ‘the next page faster’,…
What is BuyTheApp? BuyTheApp is a program that has a purpose of presenting various advertisements to users. This is why it falls under the category of adware. The ads will usually display various discounts and promotions. Now, you may think…
One of Facebook Virus variants called Facebook Change Colour has been gaining popularity in the cyber-security research fields. It has been classified to be a Trojan Horse which may affect some users via the most popular social network in the…
What is MSN Virus? This is a malicious infection, and, as its name implies, it uses the MSN IM service to spread to various systems. It has two intentions: to steal your usernames and passwords, as well as any other…
There have been reports, that a trojan horse type of malware has appeared on the security research ‘radar’. This kind of infection allows cyber-criminals to have complete accessibility to a computer system, it has been started on. Usually, Trojan horses…
What is BabMaint.exe and What Does it Do? BabMaint.exe (also known as asbabmaint.x and redirect.js) is a malicious executable related to a variety of browser hijackers. You do not want to have this messing with your browser as it will…
Reports have increased about a possible adware program, by the name of CoupCoup. In case you see any pop-up advertisements along with text, similar to ‘Powered by CoupCoup’, ‘Ads by CoupCoup’ or ‘By CoupCoup’, chances are you may have this…
CouponJumbo ads is a program, that may conceal some indirect risks to users, report security researchers. This PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) may be installed onto users systems in order to gather various information about the users’ browsing behavior. Based on…
URL by the name of pctech-notice.com is reported to be associated with numerous Potentially Unwanted Programs. It may not be malware. However, it is similar to other low-level security threats to the PC, which could be created to bring profits…
There have been several reports, regarding ‘HELP_DECRYPT’ named files on the users’ desktops that are .png , .url, .txt and there is also an HTML page being reported. These files may be an indicator that there is a CryptoWall 3.0…
Reports have increased, regarding a potentially unwanted application, going by the name of Clicktheapp. Some users claim that this is probably an ad-supported browser extension that may display pop-up advertisements, arranged via the possible usage of cookies on the victim…
If you have seen a pop-up in the form of an antivirus program that resembles some of the most widely used ones with attached ‘1-855-596-2695’ phone number to it, there is a good chance that this is an attempt to…
Many users have complained about pop-up advertisements that were interrupting the browsing process with the text ‘Ad by Coupmania’ or similar. Coupmania Ads is believed to be a Potentially Unwanted Application that may or may not collect different information from…
In case you see annoying advertisements that has a caption similar to ‘Ads by Banana Phone’ or ‘Powered by Banana Phone’, chances are, you may have installed a bundled PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) on your computer. PUPs are usually believed…
‘Ads by DealShopSave’ – in case you see something similar on top of pop-up interruptive advertisements, chances are you may have an ad-supported PUP installed on your computer. DealShopSave may be situated on your computer in the form of a…
Amazon Virus a malicious worm-like application that is reported to replicate automatically and infect a vast number of systems via email. Once on the user computer, the application may have a set of tools that it might use in a…
Privacyfence.info is a domain, listed by most leading antivirus programs as a social engineering type of malware that has two threats to the computer. Some antivirus programs define it under the name of HTML:Script-inf. There are many things that this…
MyRadioAccess Toolbar is a legitimate browser extension that helps users listen to radio via their web browser, using Flash Player. However, it has been developed by Mindspark Interactive Network, famous for making useless PUPs that they disregard as insecure. Mindspark…
