'Love.server@mail.ru' Ransomware

Posted: December 14, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'Love.server@mail.ru' Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts your files and stores them in a compressed archive to block you from using them. Dropped text messages also encourage its victims to communicate with its threat actor for the probable purpose of paying a ransom. Besides backing up your data to make it unnecessary to decrypt it, you also can protect yourself by scanning incoming files to delete the 'Love.server@mail.ru' Ransomware before it scans your computer. Most...

CyberSplitter 2.0 Ransomware

Posted: December 14, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'CyberSplitter 2.0' Ransomware is an upgrade of the Cyber Splitter Vbs Ransomware. This Trojan was noted for locking the victim's desktop previously, generating extortion-based messages, and enciphering any available media files. The newest version of this threat contains improvements to that payload and can potentially block your local content permanently. Using safe Web-browsing habits, backing up regularly, and using anti-malware products to detect and delete the 'CyberSplitter 2.0'...

Addonsmash Ads

Posted: December 14, 2016 | Category: Adware
The Addonsmash ads are plaguing your Web browser? This problem can be quite annoying, and not so tech-savvy users may often have no clue why they see these advertisements on every page they visit. Addonsmash is the name of an online service that offers the authors of browser extensions to monetize their products by injecting Addonsmash's marketing content (ads) in their extensions. This way, every user who installs a browser extension affiliated to Addonsmash will end up seeing the 'the...

SaferSearchResults.com

Posted: December 14, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
SaferSearchResults.com is a browser extension that tells users that it'll keep their searches protected from the spying eyes of advertising and marketing companies that may collect this data to improve the quality of the advertising campaigns they maintain. It is not a secret that major search engines collect anonymous information regarding the user's activity and search queries, and may use it for marketing purposes. However, the key word in this statement is 'anonymous,' which means that...

Antix Ransomware

Posted: December 13, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
The Antix Ransomware is a Trojan that collects information and blocks your files with an encryption-based cipher. Although an external decryption tool may be able to decode any files damaged by the Antix Ransomware, paying the ransom it demands is not a recommended resolution method, due to the unreliability of the associated threat actors. Removing the Antix Ransomware by applying professional anti-malware programs and loading the files from the latest backup is the ideal option for...

PayDay Ransomware

Posted: December 13, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
The PayDay Ransomware is a Trojan using encryption to prevent you from opening your files, a state that persists until you can decrypt them or retrieve their spare copies through other means. Potential symptoms can include changes to the names of any encrypted data along with the addition of new Web pages (demands for ransom payments) on your desktop. All the usual anti-malware protocols should continue being effective at stopping the PayDay Ransomware and removing the threat before any file...

Kraken Ransomware

Posted: December 13, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The Kraken Ransomware is a Trojan that may encrypt your files to block them, while also generating pop-ups to demand ransom money for decrypting them. While paying the Kraken Ransomware's threat actors can give you your media back potentially, it also may result in no help from the con artist in question. Malware experts recommend backing up any important data on your PC and using anti-malware protection standards for removing the Kraken Ransomware before it can attack. Originally known as...

SystemKeeperPro

Posted: December 13, 2016 | Category: Possibly Unwanted Program
SystemKeeperPro is a Potentially Unwanted Program that is part of the Monerix Software's portfolio of PC optimization software products. According to the product's official page, SystemKeeperPro is a 9-in-1 system optimization tool that can help users get rid of junk and duplicate files, clean temporary files, optimize their Registry, and fix various Windows errors that may have an adverse impact on the computer's performance. The website even offers users the opportunity to download the...

Search.searchleasier.com

Posted: December 13, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
Search.searchleasier.com is a search engine linked to the 'Login Easier' browser extension, a piece of software that may be compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. The purpose of the extension is to provide users with one-click access to all their e-mail inboxes, therefore saving them a few seconds every time they opt to check their e-mail. However, users who want to install this extension should be prepared for the extra change that its installation may bring –...

Hackers Fire Warning Shots at the Military Using Ransomware

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Cybersecurity
It's been an unpleasant few months for US government organizations. In October, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) admitted that during a data breach of its system, the personal details of about 21.5 million individuals had been stolen. About a month later, government workers started receiving phishing emails that carried the dreaded Locky ransomware . The unsolicited messages were designed to look like they were coming from OPM and told victims that their bank accounts had been...

'Your Computer is heavily damaged! (33.2%)' Pop-Ups

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Adware
The 'Your Computer is heavily damaged! (33.2%)' pop-ups are misleading messages that may appear in your Web browser when you stumble upon a low-quality website meant to distribute these misleading pop-ups. The purpose of the fake messages is to scare users into thinking that their computers have been infected with threats, and they must follow the on-screen instructions immediately to cure the infection and keep their computers safe from the cyber threats mentioned in the pop-up. One of the...

Bigslide.ru

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Browser Helper Objects
Bigslide.ru is a Russian website that hosts a large collection of PowerPoint presentations concerning a broad range of topics and categories. However, a sub-directory on Bigslide.ru also hosts a low-quality search engine that may be related to an aggressive browser hijacker that may modify a Web browser's configuration automatically so that it redirects users to Bigslide.ru/i/start.html whenever they perform certain options such as attempting to load their homepage or open a new tab. While...

UltraLocker Ransomware

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The UltraLocker Ransomware is a Trojan that prevents you from using your files by locking them with an encryption cipher. Symptoms of its attacks are recognizable as pop-up ransom messages asking for money to unlock your files, as well as consistent filename changes. Malware researchers always recommend keeping remote backups to counteract the effects of threats of this type, in addition to any anti-malware protection for blocking or removing the UltraLocker Ransomware when relevant. As...

'M4N1F3STO Virus' Lockscreen

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'M4N1F3STO Virus' Lockscreen is a Trojan that threatens to block your files by encrypting them and, afterward, deleting them exponentially. Malware experts are finding no such attack features in samples of the 'M4N1F3STO Virus' Lockscreen, making its threats highly likely as being empty bluffs. In all cases of a confirmed infection, take appropriate steps for disabling and removing the 'M4N1F3STO Virus' Lockscreen as per this article's recommendations without paying the ransom. With...

'Levis Locker' Ransomware

Posted: December 12, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'Levis Locker' Ransomware is a Trojan that solicits ransom payments from its victims by displaying warnings regarding their supposed illicit computer activities. Although the Trojan's development is incomplete, its threat actors may use it to encrypt your local files, delete data or block you from using your desktop. Use the strategies recommended in this article for resolving an infection and wiping the 'Levis Locker' Ransomware without submitting to its unrepresentative financial...

Recuperadados@protonmail.com Ransomware

Posted: December 11, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'Recuperadados@protonmail.com' Ransomware is a file-encrypting Trojan that locks your files with a cipher and holds the key to decoding them for a ransom payment. Backing up your hard drive in multiple locations that you update regularly is essential to avoiding any need to pay for decryption help. Preferably, most anti-malware programs also may block and delete the 'Recuperadados@protonmail.com' Ransomware during its attempt to gain access to your PC in the first place. Although a...

Mynetspeed.co

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
Mynetspeed.co is the name of a Web browser extension for the Google Chrome, and a website that promotes the software in question. According to the page, Mynetspeed.co offers users the ability to test their Internet speed directly from their Web browser quickly without having to search for 3rd-party services and websites. While this may seem like a useful tool to have at your disposal, you should think how often you need to check your Internet speed carefully. The reason for this is because an...

'.VforVendetta File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.VforVendetta File Extension' Ransomware is a Trojan that holds your files hostage by encoding them with a cipher and selling you the decryption key. Buying decryption help from threat actors often backfires on the victims of these attacks, and malware experts emphasize the much greater reliability of using backups for recovering any data. Standard anti-malware solutions can both protect your PC from this threat or remove the '.VforVendetta File Extension' Ransomware after it's already...

'_morf56@meta.ua_ File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '_morf56@meta.ua_ File Extension' Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts media it finds on your computer to lock you out of using it and then creates messages asking you to contact its e-mail address for help. These attacks almost always are attempts at extorting money from their victims, and may not provide a working data recovery solution necessarily, even if you do pay. Protecting your data by backing it up and protecting your computer with anti-malware tools able to delete the...

Xbotcode@gmail.com Ransomware

Posted: December 9, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'Xbotcode@gmail.com' Ransomware is an EDA2-based Trojan that enciphers and blocks your local files under the pretense of being a new version of the '.locky File Extension' Ransomware . Although the two threats are not related to each other necessarily, the 'Xbotcode@gmail.com' Ransomware does feature comprehensive data-encoding functions that are best circumvented by you keeping diligent backups. You also may identify or remove the 'Xbotcode@gmail.com' Ransomware through the protection...