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What is Holiday Radio Promos?
Holiday Radio Promos is classified as adware. Due to its dubious proliferation methods, it is also classed as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). It is endorsed as a tool for easy access to holiday-themed songs and similar music. In fact, Holiday Radio Promos operates by running intrusive advertisement campaigns.
Therefore, it delivers various unwanted and even harmful ads. It also has data tracking capabilities, which are used to monitor users' browsing habits.
What are the "Chooseyour" sites?
"Chooseyour" is a group of deceptive websites, promoting various online scams. They have been observed running "Latest version of Adobe Flash Player" schemes (which promote bogus updaters) and "Dear Safari User, You Are Today's Lucky Visitor" (which offers fake prizes).
These web pages might promote other scams as well. Note that fake Adobe Flash Player updates are commonly used to proliferate untrusted and even malicious software. Few users access deceptive/scam sites intentionally - most are redirected to them by intrusive ads or Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) already installed on the system.
What is Easy Recipes Search?
The Easy Recipes Search application is designed to allow users to quickly find thousands of recipes. In fact, this app promotes a fake search engine (services.easyrecipessearch-svc.com) by modifying browser settings. Therefore, Easy Recipes Search is classified as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), a browser hijacker.
These apps are termed PUAs, since people usually download and install them inadvertently. Note that browser hijackers often collect various user-system information.
What is Easy Forms Today?
Easy Forms Today is adware and a potentially unwanted application (PUA). When installed, adware-type applications feed users with various types of advertisements. They also collect browsing-related (and other) information. Apps such as Easy Forms Today are classified as PUAs, since people tend to download and install them inadvertently.
What is speakwithjohns[.]com?
Sharing similarities with exq-timepieces.com, odicfulbrid.info, ryseconomi.info and thousands of others, speakwithjohns[.]com is a rogue web page. Visitors to this site are presented with dubious content and are redirected to other untrusted or malicious websites.
People do not generally enter speakwithjohns[.]com (or similar sites) intentionally - most are redirected to them by intrusive advertisements or Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) already installed onto the system.
These apps do not need explicit user consent to infiltrate systems and, following successful infiltration, they cause redirects, deliver intrusive ad campaigns and track browsing-related information.
What is MediaConverterOnline?
As its name suggests, MediaConverterOnline supposedly operates as an online file converter, however, this application is classified as adware. Typically, software of this type feeds users with advertisements. Adware commonly gathers information as well.
In most cases, people download and install adware unintentionally. Therefore, apps of this type are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).
What is PDF2Docs?
PDF2Docs is classified as a browser hijacker. As its name suggests, it is endorsed as a tool capable of converting PDF format files to other formats. Following successful infiltration, however, it modifies browser settings to promote search.pdf2docs.com, a bogus search engine.
Furthermore, PDF2Docs has data tracking capabilities, which are employed to monitor users' browsing habits. Since most users install this software unintentionally, PDF2Docs is also classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA).
What is Bifrose?
Bifrose is a family of Remote Administration Tools (RATs). Cyber criminals seek to infect computers with programs of this type to take control over them and perform specific actions, which allow them to generate revenue.
Research shows that Bifrose's RATs can be used to manage files, processes, log keystrokes, take screenshots, access webcams, execute commands, edit the registry and steal passwords.
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