M0on Ransomware

Posted: November 23, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The M0on Ransomware is a Trojan built off of the My Little Ransomware modular kit with the intention of blocking your local content by encrypting it and making you pay money to retrieve it. Past versions of this family target Chinese-based PC users with file damages that can be irreversible primarily. Remove the M0on Ransomware with proper anti-malware tools as soon as possible to prevent any additional damage, and recover any lost data from your latest backup. America and Europe are far...

VindowsLocker Ransomware

Posted: November 22, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The VindowsLocker Ransomware is a Trojan that encodes your hard drive's contents with a cipher to prevent you from opening documents, pictures and other media. The predominant symptom of a VindowsLocker Ransomware infection is the ransom image it displays afterward for collecting money via a computer repair tactic. Until malware experts can confirm other details, they recommend protecting your PC with anti-malware solutions able to delete the VindowsLocker Ransomware before its attacks can...

'.x3m File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 22, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.x3m File Extension' Ransomware is a Trojan that delivers ransom messages soliciting money in exchange for reversing the encryption-based damage that it does to your files. Its attacks include using harmful, non-consensual encryption to encode your local data, inserting new extensions into the associated content's names, and displaying pop-ups or hijacking your desktop's background. Malware experts recommend using anti-malware tools already viable against the Globe Ransomware family...

'.aesir File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 22, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.aesir File Extension' Ransomware is a Trojan that damages your files by encrypting them, blocking the content until you decrypt it back to the previous format. Attempted installations for the '.aesir File Extension' Ransomware occur through e-mail attacks utilizing disguised attachments currently. Although your anti-malware programs can't decrypt any lost data, they can delete the '.aesir File Extension' Ransomware or any Trojan droppers that might infect your PC. For PC users who...

CHIP Ransomware

Posted: November 22, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The CHIP Ransomware is a Trojan that uses asymmetric encryption to lock your files so that it can ask for ransom money to restore them. Because this threat's campaign uses non-consensual infection vectors, PC owners should use anti-malware protection able to block attempted downloads and installations by default. The same software also may remove the CHIP Ransomware, although backups remain the most reliable method of recovering any damaged data. Exploit kits (or EKs) are notable for...

ChromoSearch.com

Posted: November 22, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
Chromosearch.com is a low-quality search engine that claims to be the 'future of online searches.' However, instead of providing users with reliable results, Chromosearch.com's search feature brings back a blank page, and it also includes links that should allow the user to search for 'Images,' 'Videos' or 'News.' However, when any of the links is clicked, the user is simply redirected to Google.com's homepage. Overall, Chromosearch.com appears to be in a dysfunctional state and using this...

Advancecomputerzone.online

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Adware
Advancecomputerzone.online is a corrupted website whose purpose is to promote a fake technical support that may be used to collect money from non-suspecting computer users. The scheme works by blocking the user's Web browser with a deceptive pop-up that tells them that their computers have been infected by threats, and their photos, passwords, chat logs and other data may be exposed to third parties if they opt to close this window. In addition to this, Advancecomputerzone.online also may...

'.exploit File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.exploit File Extension' Ransomware is a variant of the Globe Ransomware, a file-encrypting Trojan that blocks your media so that it can ransom them for money. Attacks by the '.exploit File Extension' Ransomware may distribute themselves through e-mail or direct attempts to hack a network-accessible system. Your anti-malware programs can remove the '.exploit File Extension' Ransomware before it locks your data, while free decryption options may help you reverse any damages that this...

‘Suppteam03@india.com’ Ransomware

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that blocks your files by encrypting them with a cipher. Although it attacks can cause permanent data loss, the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware uses its damages as a scenario for facilitating ransom payments wherein con artists offer to sell their victims a decryption tool. You can diminish the impact of such attacks by keeping remote backups, paying attention to the most frequent infection vectors, and having anti-malware applications for...

'.razy1337 File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.razy1337 File Extension' Ransomware is a Trojan using a combination of the AES and RSA encryption to block your media, such as work documents or pictures. As a follow-up, its attacks create messages asking for ransom money before the threat actor supposedly decrypts the files. As a protection against such attacks, malware experts strongly recommend maintaining your backups diligently and using anti-malware products for deleting the '.razy1337 File Extension' Ransomware during the...

'.kukaracha File Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.kukaracha File Extension' Ransomware is a fork of the Unlock92 Ransomware and continues blocking your files via encryption to sell you the decryption solution. Attacks are visibly recognizable by the '.kukaracha File Extension' Ransomware's inclusion of new extensions on any encoded content, but the difficulty of reversing such attacks may mean that your data loss is permanent. As such, using anti-malware programs for blocking and deleting the '.kukaracha File Extension' Ransomware...

SavingsCool Ads

Posted: November 21, 2016 | Category: Adware
SavingsCool is an adware application difficult to remove from the affected computer because it might hide some of its files in various folders to make sure that it'll continue to operate even after the user uninstalls it via the Windows Control Panel. While this adware is active, the affected user might end up seeing a large number of 'SavingsCool ads' in their Web browser, and the contents of these ads may often be associated with potentially harmful websites, products and services. The...

ShellLocker Ransomware

Posted: November 18, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The ShellLocker Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts personal media, such as images, to force you into transferring the Bitcoin cryptocurrency to its administrator's account. Although free decryption products are not yet extant for the ShellLocker Ransomware, keeping backups that aren't compromised by the infection can give you another way to recover any blocked content. Malware experts find many samples of this threat using misleading file names, and you should use your anti-malware products...

ScanPOS

Posted: November 17, 2016 | Category: Trojans
ScanPOS is a PoS Trojan that infects Point-of-Sale machines and collects credit card information. Other threats may distribute ScanPOS, including banking Trojans that have additional capabilities associated with pilfering financial or account-related data. With this threat showing no symptoms, businesses should strive to avoid known infection vectors and use anti-malware products for uninstalling ScanPOS. Although they are by no means the most popular category of threatening software,...

Floki

Posted: November 17, 2016 | Category: Trojans
Floki is a fork of the Keylogger Zeus project that can commit similar attacks, such as monitoring your Web-browsing behavior to collect information. Although its payload's goals are identical to its recent ancestor's, Floki includes some additional features meant to thwart AV security heuristics. Keep your anti-malware products as updated as possible to minimize the efficacy of this threat's evasive methods and remove Floki before it collects any data. Just as Zeus was known as being a...

'.duhust Extension' Ransomware

Posted: November 17, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The '.duhust Extension' Ransomware encrypts your local media files and creates instructions asking you to contact its perpetrators via e-mail to pay for a decoder. Decryption services purchased via ransoms tend to be unreliable and should be considered, if ever, only after trying every alternative. Like other file-encrypting Trojans, you can remove the '.duhust Extension' Ransomware before or after its encryption attack with most basic anti-malware solutions. As threat authors do their...

Dharma Ransomware

Posted: November 17, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The Dharma Ransomware is a Trojan that renames and encrypts your files, blocking them until you pay its ransom. Because the Dharma Ransomware may not provide its victims with decryption services, PC owners should try to maintain updated backups on systems that this Trojan can't access. In ideal cases, your anti-malware products should block the Dharma Ransomware and delete it before it can install itself and encode your files. The Crysis Ransomware and many of its relatives already bear...

BonziBuddy Ransomware

Posted: November 16, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The BonziBuddy Ransomware is a Trojan that creates pop-ups asking for ransom money to repair the file damage the rest of its payload supposedly causes. While malware experts rate the BonziBuddy Ransomware's capacity for causing file damage as being limited currently, future updates may increase this threat's capacity for causing harm. Regardless, you should delegate removing all of the BonziBuddy Ransomware's components to your anti-malware software. Web-browsing assistant apps have a less...

"Demo" Ransomware

Posted: November 16, 2016 | Category: Ransomware
The "Demo" Ransomware is a Trojan that encodes JPG pictures with a cipher to block them and generates additional files that deliver text-based ransom demands. Infiltration methods for threats of this type often include spam e-mails or browser-based attacks, such as exploit kits that could install the threat automatically. Use your anti-malware programs to stop the "Demo" Ransomware's installation and remove it, and make backups to make your data less vulnerable to similar attacks. One of...

Muzeen.com

Posted: November 16, 2016 | Category: Browser Hijackers
Muzeen.com is a low-quality search engine whose interface, search feature and other properties hint that it might be linked to Wibeez.com, another search engine that uses a pretty similar interface, and is also meant to be used by French-speaking users. The Muzeen.com search engine is not a threatening Web destination, nor is it linked to the distribution of potentially unsafe software or content. However, it is worth nothing that Muzeen.com is also not a popular website, and its authors may...