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Posted by Siren on September 19, 2016
No matter how hard the authors of Safe Finder try to market it as a useful browser extension on steroids, there are quite a few reasons to question its legitimacy. This app gets off the beaten track, in a bad way, as it operates without user’s approval: its installation is furtive, and the changes made […]
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Posted by Siren on September 19, 2016
Sometimes crypto threats fail to reach their extortion goal as early as at the stage of computer contamination, in which case the attack isn’t worth the criminals’ while. The Trojan dubbed Petya happens to be an example – its technical gist relies on gaining administrator privileges on a targeted machine. Since this kind of access […]
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Posted by Siren on September 17, 2016
Computer usage is certainly incomplete without web surfing these days, and so is Internet navigation proper with the Tavanero virus running on a machine. This infection badly twists its victim’s browsing preferences and keeps resolving tavanero.info site instead of the custom values defined by the PC administrator. What is Tavanero Search When confronted with the […]
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Posted by Siren on September 14, 2016
Most computer viruses are written for specific malevolent objectives, typically ones related to financial gain in one way or another. Infections like the Memz trojan, however, go beyond this mercantile paradigm. The above-mentioned app appears to be built for wreaking havoc with any Windows machine it ends up on, period. It calls forth multiple glitches […]
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Posted by Siren on September 12, 2016
Today’s web search landscape is versatile, with a vast range of keyword lookup services being available to end users. All it takes to use a specific provider on a permanent basis is some simple toggling of browser preferences. But what if a certain page, such as Nefryhok Search, keeps popping up in a browser without […]
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Posted by Siren on September 8, 2016
It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of organizing and backing up photos. Aside from the apparent ease and convenience of finding the right picture whenever it’s needed, such an approach also allows safeguarding invaluable digital memories against computer threats like crypto ransomware. When looking for a tool to secure photos, though, it’s strongly recommended to […]
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Posted by Siren on September 3, 2016
The recent emergence of the cryptovirus called Fantom evokes some nontrivial contemplations. The first portion of food for thought is whether educational ransomware initiatives are more useful than harmful. Another consideration has to do with the extent to which users should trust the very look and feel of commonplace system processes, such as critical updates. […]
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Posted by Siren on September 3, 2016
Successful free recovery of data locked by crypto ransomware is a function of whether or not backups are available. This, unfortunately, isn’t the case most the time. Users should be prepared for this growing menace and make sure they needn’t submit Bitcoins to redeem their critical personal files. When hit by Cerber3, the third version […]
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Posted by Siren on August 31, 2016
Taxpayers over in Canada are being targeted by a large-scale fraud, where threat actors pretend to act on behalf of Canada Revenue Agency. Unsuspecting people have been receiving rogue emails, text messages and phone calls insisting that they pay an inexistent fiscal debt, claim a tax refund or receive INTERAC e-Transfer from CRA by submitting […]
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Posted by Siren on August 31, 2016
In pursuit of effective ways to serve malicious software to Windows computers, cybercrooks often bank on different types of social engineering. In one of the recent hoaxes, the criminals have been sending emails with rogue subpoenas allegedly on behalf of the Australian Federal Police. This scam, obviously, targets Australians and tries to infect their machines […]
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