The Enhance Pro is an adware application that promises people to save them time and money by providing them with instant updates regarding the best shopping deals available online. In addition to this, the Enhance Pro claims to save money by telling people where to find the best price for the product they are browsing currently. These features may sound useful, but like many other things they are too good to be true, and people who expect to save money with the Enhance Pro's help may end up...

Pro Flip is a Web browser extension that is only compatible with Google Chrome. According to the official website of this software, users who install it will get to receive instant updates about the best deals available online, therefore helping them save money and find the best products and services that meet their needs. However, the installation of Pro Flip might not be the brightest idea since the Terms & Conditions that accompany this product state that it is 'ad-supported.' An...

Earlier this week, a group of hackers that calls itself ''Turkish Crime Family'' claimed it had breached hundreds of millions of accounts of Apple users and had a result the ability to destroy all stored user data by accessing the associated devices remotely. The group demanded a ransom for the hijacked accounts in the amount of $75,000 worth of Bitcoins, or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards, whereby the deadline for fulfilling these conditions was set on April 7, 2017. The cyber...

The Search App is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) whose developer and publisher is Aztec Media. The software is meant to provide users with an improved way to search the Web that should help them find more relevant and attractive content. However, the installation of the Search App extension may not do exactly this and, instead, users who authorize its installation may end up finding out that their new tab page has been set to 'blpmovies.com.' This domain hosts a search engine that...

IsMiner is a legitimate application that may be used to mine various cryptocurrencies. There are many free tools and utilities that perform this action, and nearly all of them are considered to be reliable and used for potentially harmful purposes rarely. However, IsMiner may sometimes be falsely used since some evil-minded users might distribute it via software bundles, and install it without the knowledge of their potential 'victims.' When IsMiner is installed this way, it may modify the...

The Easy Arcade New Tab is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may be delivered as a browser extension that may be compatible just with Google Chrome. According to the software's official website, the Easy Arcade New Tab provides users with instant access to thousands of free online games that can be played for unlimited periods of time. It is important to note that the games in question are not hosted on the Easy Arcade New Tab's servers and, instead, they are delivered as quick links...

The Trident File Locker is a file-encrypting Trojan that can block your files and modify their names or extensions. Most con artists use threats of this category for delivering ransom demands for payment before they'll help decode your data, although such solutions are a high-risk inherently. Proven, mainstream defenses include backing up your hard drive regularly and letting anti-malware products analyze all infection vectors and remove the Trident File Locker before any attacks. A threat...

NSBlock is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that claims to provide users with protection from spyware, phishing, or other potentially harmful websites that they may encounter while browsing the Web. The extension does this by displaying a notification and halting the connection to the website that the user is trying to visit temporarily if it turns out that the page in question is suspicious. While these actions may certainly seem helpful, users who wish to stay safe online should keep in...

The XFirefox.exe is a program that was created with the function of engendering monetary gain for its developers by downloading and installing a duplicate of the Firefox Developer Edition, which will advertise its partner websites. The source of the Xfirefrox.exe is the genuine Mozilla Firefox Developer Build, and the XFirefox.exe is a modified copy of the Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition that has, as its main function, the exhibition of advertisements that will cover a wide range of...

When downloading and installing a useful free application from the Web, computer user may allow the entrance of adware, Possibly Unwanted Programs (PUPs), etc. Among these unwelcomed applications that may be installed by the computer user unknowingly is Tlerauic, which is developed by Tivecar and enters the affected programs via two files, oviita.dll and obtorsub.dll. Once inside a computer, Tlerauic will start displaying numerous advertisements on visited Web pages, may collect your...

BeansPlayer is an audio player that appears to be the product of an amateur programmer who has decided to code this application as an educational project. However, an educational project is usually not supposed to bring adware to the user's computer but, unfortunately, it appears that this is what BeansPlayer is meant to do exactly. Users who opt to install this application may end up seeing random advertisements in their Web browser windows, and these ads may keep appearing even when their...

The Search Secretly is a browser extension by Visicom Media that claims to provide users with an anonymous search engine that they can use to keep their search queries hidden from the inquisitive eyes of major search engines that may use this data for marketing purposes. However, to do this, the Search Secretly will ask users to change their new tab page and default search service provider to hxxp://searchsecretly.net – a search engine that, as the name suggests, is affiliated with the Search...

The LLTP Ransomware is a modified version of the VenusLocker Ransomware with a partially rewritten code, although it continues encrypting files and extorting ransom money. Spanish and English speakers should watch for the usual infection vectors, such as e-mail attachments especially, and consider backing up their drives. When backups for restoration aren't available, preventing this threat's attacks by having anti-malware solutions able to delete the LLTP Ransomware is your best protection....

The BlackJockerCrypter Ransomware is a file-encoding Trojan that uses encryption as a way to lock your files and ransom them. Various components of this threat imitate the Globe Ransomware family deliberately, although malware experts find the two Trojans to be unrelated to each other. Anti-malware products may detect this threat and remove the BlackJockerCrypter Ransomware before it encrypts your hard drive, but a complete post-infection recovery may require having an uninfected backup....

The AnonFive Ransomware is a new version of Hidden Tear: a Trojan made as a demonstration of threatening file-encrypting programming. This version of the threat has been updated to deliver custom ransoming notes to its victims, which have the choice of paying and hoping that they receive a decryptor or resigning their files to being unreadable. Backups and free decryptors are helpful for undoing this threat's attacks, although you always should delete the AnonFive Ransomware before it can...

Search.real-desktop.de is a search engine that may take the place of your default new tab page although you may not remember making or approving this change. This may sound like a weird occurrence, but it is rather common for some poor quality pieces of software to promote 3rd-party pages like Search.real-desktop.de. The software, in this case, is 'Real Desktop,' a utility that allows users to turn their boring Windows desktop in a 3D-animated environment that looks fancier but does not serve...

The Motd Ransomware is a Trojan that threat actors may install after exploiting network-related security vulnerabilities to gain system access. It encrypts local files to stop you from being able to open or read them and creates messages for ransoming the matching decryptor. Your standard anti-malware solutions may identify and delete the Motd Ransomware, but without preventing the infection, having non-encoded backups may be your only option for restoring any data. As consumer interest in...

The ZinoCrypt Ransomware is a file-encrypting Trojan: a threat that locks your files by encoding them with a cipher that it protects with a custom-generated key. Its attacks include attempts to extort money from its victims in return for the threat actor's decryption help, which malware experts discourage using as a solution. Standard backup and anti-malware protocols should be adequate for limiting the Trojan's payload or removing the ZinoCrypt Ransomware from your computer when needed. A...

The Event Monitor is a deceptive component of the application SecurePCCleaner developed by Super Tuneup Technologies LLC. The Secure PC Cleaner is identified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by researcher because the Event Monitor may take part in a technical support tactic that works in a rather peculiar and innovative way that has not yet been adopted by other con artists involved in hoaxes of this sort. The Event Monitor software monitors the Windows Event Viewer and is programmed...

The Lick Ransomware is a minor variant of the Kirk Ransomware. Both Trojans use file-encrypting attacks, albeit with different brand names, for extorting money from their victims. Decryption solutions aren't always possible for free, and malware analysts advise backing up any files that you can't afford to suffer damage. Anti-malware products capable of detecting its predecessor also can identify and remove the Lick Ransomware before it can begin enciphering any data. Even though the Kirk...