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Critical Security Warning! Scam
Critical Security Warning! Scam is a newly discovered tech support scam that claims that your Mac computer is under attack and that your privacy is jeopardized. The fact o the matter is that this scam was designed to convince you to call a fake tech support phone number and buy useless malware removal services and computer protection. We have found that this scam is shown to users by a potentially unwanted program that can be a standalone application or a browser extension. If you do not want to see this scam window, you have to delete the software that is redirecting you to its page. In this article, we will talk about how this scam is distributed, what it does, and how you can get rid of it. ...
Crypto-Loot Miner
Crypto-Loot Miner cannot be labeled as a dangerous threat to your system and, as you may also know, crypto-mining is still considered legal; well, sort of. As a matter of fact, we believe that when your PC is used by a third-party program to mine cryptocurrencies using your computer as a resource and all this without your permission or knowledge, such a program does commit a form of violation of privacy. Even if this miner may not use all your CPU power to do its mining, it can cause serious slowdowns, which can make your virtual experience annoying and disruptive. ...
Marlin.exe Siacoin GPU Miner
Marlin.exe Siacoin GPU Miner is a tool that can be freely downloaded by anyone from the web. Originally, it is not a malicious application, but cyber criminals might also download it from the web and distribute it seeking to earn Siacoin, one of the digital currencies, using users’ computers resources. It is quite a challenge to detect it on the system because it does not have an interface, it is installed on users’ computers illegally, and, finally, it performs all its activities in the background. Of course, we do not say that it is impossible to find out about its entrance without a diagnostic antimalware tool. ...
Setli
Setli is promoted as an application that will allow you to access censored websites and protect your privacy. It modifies your system’s DNS settings to do that. However, we have found that it can also show ads and, in fact, showing ads is probably its primary objective. Therefore, we have classified this program as adware which means that it is highly unreliable and you ought to remove it. This program does not state that it shows ads explicitly, but this can be seen from its legal documents. Also, the ads it can show while you browse the web are potentially unreliable because there is no telling where they come from. ...
Browserhome.net
How did Browserhome.net replace your previous homepage URL? Was that done with your permission? If it was not, your operating system or mobile device could be vulnerable, and all kinds of unwanted pieces of software could be running on it. Employ a legitimate malware scanner to figure that out right away. If the search tool came bundled with an app for your mobile device or along an extension or an application installed on your PC, you might have given it the permission to change the homepage. Even if that is the case, it is smart to perform a full system scan to see if you need to remove anything that is not reliable or beneficial. ...
Unknown System Failure! Scam
If you get redirected to a website that says your PC has been infected with malware that stole your Facebook and email passwords and other information, then that can be the result of Unknown System Failure! Scam. This scam is hosted on a website to which you can get redirected by an application or browser extension while you browse the web. Its link can also be promoted on other websites. You have to remove the software not to see this scam page again, but it might not be easy to detect it. This scam is an attempt by cybercriminals to sell you useless malware removing software or other products. ...
Votre Ordinateur Peut Tre En Pril Tech Support Scam
The chances are high that you have encountered Votre Ordinateur Peut Tre En Pril Tech Support Scam if you have started seeing warnings claiming that malicious software has been detected on the system out of the blue. Such scams are developed by malicious software creators to scare users into dialing the number promoted by these fake alerts. This number might be a premium-rate number and, on top of that, it belongs to cyber criminals instead of helpful technicians willing to help users to fix security-related issues. Because of this, please ignore all those warnings you have started seeing because they are fabricated. ...
PCPrivacyProtect
PCPrivacyProtect is known to be a rogue program. To put it differently, it is not what it claims to be. We can assure you that it is not a beneficial piece of software that can prevent the privacy theft. Instead, it is a Trojan infection seeking to scare users into contacting “certified security experts.” Most probably, it wants computer users to call them so that cyber criminals could convince them to purchase an expensive program or gain access to the system and steal personal information. Because of this, we suggest that users ignore the telephone number they see on this rogue program despite the fact that PCPrivacyProtect tries to convince them that their personal information has already been exposed. ...
Bonzersearch.com
Bonzersearch.com is an unreliable search engine that you can get accidentally because its creators distribute it via bundled software installers that inject it into your browser automatically. If this search engine has replaced your default search engine, then you might want to remove it because it offers nothing of value. In fact, this search engine was created by a company that is dedicated to search engine marketing and web traffic generation. It was also set to collect information about you that we think is used for geotargeting purposes. In this short article, we will discuss how this search engine works, how it is distributed and how you can get rid of it. ...
Novo Optimizer Gpu Miner
Novo Optimizer Gpu Miner is a digital currency miner that can infect your PC secretly and use its GPU to mine or whatever digital currency its command and control server instructs it to mine. We have classified it as a Trojan because of the way it infects your PC and uses its resources to serve the agenda of its developers. When you run this program for the first time, this Trojan will present itself as PC optimization program but will optimize nothing. If anything, it will make your PC slower and can potentially damage it. Needless to say, you have to remove this Trojan if you want to use your computer normally as this program will slow it down significantly as it will allocate its processing power of the GPU to mine coins. ...
