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Search.searcherzip.com Redirect (Mac)
Mac Virus

Search.searcherzip.com Redirect (Mac)

Practically identical to search.genieosearch.com, search.pardessov.com, search.globalsearch.pw and others, search.searcherzip.com is a fake search engine. It is endorsed as an optimizer for download/install processes (however it does not actually have any such features). This website is promote

Search.convertermastersearch.com Redirect (Mac)
Mac Virus

Search.convertermastersearch.com Redirect (Mac)

Search.convertermastersearch.com is a fake search engine, advertised as a tool for optimizing and simplifying download/install processes. It is identical to search.genieosearch.com, search.pardessov.com and many others. This website is spread through browser hijacking downloaders/installers. Br

Advanced Mac Booster Unwanted Application (Mac)
Mac Virus

Advanced Mac Booster Unwanted Application (Mac)

Developers of Advanced Mac Booster application state that this app optimizes MacOS systems. It supposedly allows users to clean MacOS systems, fix various issues, thus improving overall operating system performance. In fact, this app is classified as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and

Carambis Cleaner Unwanted Application
Potentially unwanted application

Carambis Cleaner Unwanted Application

Carambis Cleaner is a dubious application that claims to clean and optimize the system. Judging on appearance alone, Carambis Cleaner may seem legitimate and useful, however, it is likely to infiltrate computers without consent, since developers proliferate the app using a deceptive marketing meth

Apple.com-mac-optimization.xyz POP-UP Scam (Mac)
Mac Virus

Apple.com-mac-optimization.xyz POP-UP Scam (Mac)

apple.com-mac-optimization[.]xyz is a deceptive website designed to trick people into downloading and installing a rogue application called Cleanup My Mac. This software supposedly removes fake viruses that this scam website has detected. Note that apple.com-mac-optimization[.]xyz is not the on

Peta Ransomware
Ransomware

Peta Ransomware

Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Peta ransomware belongs to the Djvu family. This software is designed to encrypt files stored on the victim's computer. To decrypt them, victims are encouraged to purchase a decryption tool and/or key from the cyber criminals who designed the program (i.e., pay a r

Radio Now App Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

Radio Now App Browser Hijacker

Radio Now App is a browser hijacker and a PUA (potentially unwanted application). It is endorsed as a helpful tool for finding popular online radio stations, accompanied by a fake search engine. It is categorized as a PUA, due to most users installing it inadvertently. Its functions as a browser

Shariz Ransomware
Ransomware

Shariz Ransomware

Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Shariz is a malicious program that belongs to the Djvu ransomware family. Like many other programs of this type, Shariz encrypts all victims' files and renames them by adding a new extension. This ransomware adds the ".shariz" extension. For example, "1.jpg" becom

Online Manuals App Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

Online Manuals App Browser Hijacker

Online Manuals App is browser hijacker. Advertised as an application for finding and accessing online manuals, accompanied by a web searching tool. Due to the fact that few users install it onto their devices willingly, it is classified as a PUA (potentially unwanted application). As a browser hi

This Is Important Information For You Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

This Is Important Information For You Email Scam

"This is important information for you!" is an email scam. Scammers behind it seek to extort money from unsuspecting people by threatening to proliferate screenshots that have supposedly been made using recipients' webcams. They claim that they will proliferate these images unless a ransom is paid