Sharman Yarnell Giphy Search is a rogue program that advertises itself as a search engine for gif images. However, the program belongs to the browser hijacker and adware category. It promotes a fake search engine having URL giphy-search.best. It can also change your a few settings like the default search engine, the new tab, and the homepage of … Read more
Mypushz.com is an untrustworthy website that urges you into subscribing to push notifications. The site uses clickbait tactics to make you click the allow button. By doing so, you permit the website to use your browser’s capabilities to show notifications on your desktop. After that, the site either redirects you to other similar pages or load … Read more
Beforeigntools.club is a rogue website that uses clickbait techniques to urge you to click the allow button. When you do so, you permit the website to use your browser capabilities to show you pop-up notifications on your screen. The site then either load questionable content or redirect you to a few other websites. Some more examples … Read more
FullTab Movie is a browser hijacker program that operates by changing a few settings of your browser. It promotes a fake search engine titled tailsearch.com by replacing your new tab, homepage, and the default search engine of your browser. A few more examples of such rogue extension are PowerSmash, Allsearch App, and ConverterSearchHD. Apart from ruining your browsing experience, … Read more
Kolz is a ransomware program that belongs to the Djvu ransomware family. It operates by encrypting the data on your computer and then demands a ransom amount in exchange for the decryption tool. A few more similar programs are Anon, Microsoft (Xorist), and PewPew ransomware. You can also notice that this program renames the compromised files by adding the … Read more
PowerSmash is a browser hijacker program that operates by changing a few browser settings. It promotes a fake search engine titled smashapps.net by replacing the new tab, homepage, and the default search engine of your browser. However, the search engine can not generate results. Therefore, it redirects you to search.yahoo.com for every query. A few … Read more
Allsearch App is a rogue extension that belongs to the browser hijacker category. It changes your default search engine, the new tab, and the homepage to promote tailsearch.com. The website is a fake search engine that redirects you to google since it can not generate results. However, it can record your search queries and browsing history. … Read more
Anon looks identical to the DemonWare ransomware. Usually, such programs encrypt the files on your system and then demand a ransom amount for recovering your files. However, Anon ransomware does not encrypt any file. It only creates a ransom note and provides similar information in a pop-up. The ransom note titled “README.txt” informs you that … Read more
ConverterSearchHD is a browser hijacker program that operates by changing your browser’s few settings to promote convertersearchhd.com. The website is a fake search engine that can not generate results. Therefore, it would redirect you to search.yahoo.com for every query. A few more similar programs are Browse Moment, DefaultProgress, AllRadioSearch. Besides ruining your browsing experience, the rogue program can also … Read more
ConverterSearchNow is a malicious program that belongs to the browser hijacker category. Such programs usually change the new tab, homepage, and the default search engine to promote a fake website. In this case, the program promotes convertersearchnow.com. The fake search engine can not generate any result. Thus, it redirects you to search.yahoo.com for every query. People … Read more