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Monthly Archives January 2020
Watch Movies Live
If you want to watch movies online, do not expect Watch Movies Live to help you much. This extension will provide you with easy-access links to different streaming websites, and you will have to pay money to stream content. Basically, the extension promotes Disney Plus, Netflix, Hulu, and similar services. It certainly does not provide users with a shortcut that would make it possible to stream movies or TV shows for free. If that is what you expected to get out of the tool, you will want to remove it instantly. However, if you expected for it to work exactly like it does, you might decide to keep it around. ...
Pashka Ransomware
Pashka Ransomware slithers in silently. It has to be quiet; otherwise, the targeted users might have a chance to recognize malware and remove it before it is executed. The threat also has to invade systems that lack reliable protection because if security software is installed, the threat should be eliminated automatically before execution. Obviously, if a system is not protected, and if the threat manages to remain concealed, it has nothing stopping it from execution. The saddest part is that victims of this malware are usually involved in its entrance because it usually hides within bundled downloaders, fake installers, and spam emails. ...
Easy Gaming App
Playing games online can be an enjoyable pastime, but how you play these games matters a lot. Easy Gaming App is an extension that promises to provide you with direct access to multiple games from one spot, and so it might sound quite intriguing. However, if you have installed it, you know already that its services are highly limited. It only offers links to gamefly.com, gamersgate.com, win.worldwinner.com, and minecraft.net, and if you are not interested in these particular games, the extension will be of no use to you. Furthermore, you could bookmark the websites to access them directly from your browser, and so the extension is kind of useless. ...
BIOLOAD
Researchers believe that BIOLOAD is one of the newest creations of a financially-motivated group of cybercriminals that are known as FIN7. Same as other hackers’ threats, the malware is a sophisticated tool that is used to attack various companies and not regular home users. It was first noticed in March and July 2019 and might still be active to this day. What makes it a complex and a difficult threat to detect is the way it infiltrates targeted systems. Specialists say that the malware does so by pretending to be a legitimate DLL file. To learn more about how BIOLOAD could enter a system and what it might do after it gets in, we advise reading our full article. ...
ROGER Ransomware
ROGER Ransomware is a dangerous computer infection, and it will try to rip you off by holding your files hostage. No matter what this program is going to tell you, you need to ignore it and focus on the malware removal. Please note that removing ROGER Ransomware doesn’t mean all the things this program did to your system automatically disappear, too. You need either a public decryption tool or a file backup to recover the encrypted data. If you feel at a loss of what you’re supposed to do, please be sure to address a professional technician nearby. ...
BitPyLock Ransomware
BitPyLock Ransomware is an infection that can invade your operating system without much fuss, and it does not have a lot of components. In fact, only one .exe file (the launcher) and an .html file dropped by the infection are involved. However, even though the threat is simple in its structure, it can create huge problems for you. The main task for this malware is to encrypt files, which it does using AES-256 and RSA-2048 encryption keys. Once that is done, the data of the affected files is changed, and that is why files become unreadable. ...
5ss5c Ransomware
Users from China might encounter a new version of Satan Ransomware that is called 5ss5c Ransomware. The malware’s name derives from its extension, which it adds to the files that it encrypts. For example, a file called penguin.jpg should become [5ss5c@mail.ru]penguin.jpg.{40 random symbols}.5ss5c if it gets encrypted by this malicious application. Also, victims of the threat should notice a ransom note, which should be written in Chinese. Since the note does not have English or any other translation, researchers believe that it is targeted solely at people who speak Chinese. ...
Ako Ransomware
Ako Ransomware is one of those computer infections that all of us want to avoid. It is a genuine ransomware program, and so it can successfully encrypt all the personal files you keep on your computer. Since there is no public decryption tool available at the moment, you might have to say good-bye to your files, if you do not have a file backup. Luckily, it is rather easy to remove Ako Ransomware because the program doesn’t seem to drop any additional files. Nevertheless, our goal is to prevent such infections from reaching the target systems because the consequences might be too dire. ...
ADHUBLLKA Ransomware
ADHUBLLKA Ransomware is a file encryptor, and it does not spare any personal files once it slithers into an operating system. Needless to say, an operating system that allows such an infection in must be unguarded and vulnerable. Even if you do not install legitimate security software to guard you, you can still minimize your risk of attracting malware by avoiding malicious links, downloaders, or spam emails, and also downloading updates in time. There are plenty of infections that can exploit such backdoors and vulnerabilities, including Somik1 Ransomware, C0hen Locker Ransomware, or Dever Ransomware. ...
Weather Forecaster
Do you always check your weather app before going outside? Maybe you have an app added to your browser? As long as it’s not Weather Forecaster, it shouldn’t be a problem. However, if you have this extension on your Chrome browser, it would be for the best to remove Weather Forecaster as soon as possible.
This extension is a potentially unwanted program. Therefore, it could exhibit various aspects of undesirable behavior. What’s more, you might have added it to your browser accidentally. So, if that is the case, you should definitely delete the extension and then run a full system scan. ...
