HelperEvents is an adware-type app designed to appear useful and legitimate. Its developers state that it enhances the browsing experience (provides fast, accurate search results, and so on), however, as with most adware, HelperEvents displays various advertisements and leads to dubious websites
Imagineprime is a deceptive application identical to GenerelOpen, WindowArea, NameSync, and many others. By offering an enhanced web search experience, Imagineprime attempts to give the impression of legitimacy, however, it is categorized as adware and a potentially unwanted application (PUA),
GeneralOpen (Mac) is an app that supposedly enhances the internet browsing experience, however, it belongs to the adware category. Most adware-type programs display ads and trick people into visiting untrustworthy websites. In most cases, people download and install adware inadvertently. Additi
Xtron Optimizer Pro is one of many system optimization tools that supposedly cleans computers and improves performance, however, not all software that can be downloaded from the internet is legitimate. Xtron Optimizer Pro is often included in the set-ups of other software, and many people inadver
DigMine is the name of a malicious program that was discovered by Xylitol. This malware is used to proliferate a cryptocurrency miner based on XMRig, another crypto-miner that mines Monero cryptocurrency. DigMine also installs a Chrome extension enabling developers to spread this malicious program
Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Nuksus is a high-risk ransomware infection that belongs to the Djvu ransomware family. The purpose of this ransomware is to encrypt most stored data and keep it that state unless a ransom is paid. During encryption, Nuksus renames each file by adding the ".nuksus"
Xtron Cleanup Pro is a potentially unwanted application (PUA) that supposedly cleans, optimizes, and improves computer performance. This software is categorized as a PUA since developers distribute it through download/installation set-ups of other programs. People usually download and install soft
Getmedia[.]me is a rogue site, designed to generate redirects to compromised and malicious websites. It also delivers unreliable and potentially dangerous content. This site shares many similarities with dreamteammyfriend.com, newsfrog.me, allowpush.club and thousands of others. Most visitors ent
Checkingforward is a deceptive, scam website used to advertise the Smart Mac Booster app. The site is used to trick people into downloading and installing this app using deception: when opened, the site claims that the computer is infected with malware and offers to install the app to remove the
Full PC Care 2.0 is software that supposedly fixes problems (such as errors) that might be slowing the computer down, uninstalls unwanted programs, and removes malware, however, developers distribute this program by including it in the download or installation set-ups of other software. Typically