Scammers use the "You can visit the police station" spam email campaign to trick people into believing that they have obtained compromising photos or videos. They also make ransom demands and threaten that they will proliferate this material if their demands are not met. Note that this is simply
"Your Windows has been banned" or "This PC has been Blocked" is a fake error message claiming that the user has violated Microsoft's terms of use. Be aware, however, that this is simply a scam that locks the computer screen and encourages victims to contact "Microsoft's Technicians" who will supp
HawkEye is high-risk virus designed to record keystrokes, account credentials, and other similar information. In most cases, HawkEye is distributed using spam email campaigns. Developers send thousands of deceptive emails that encourage users to open attached files, however, opening them results i
Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos is the name of a threat detected by Windows Defender. Although the message states that Trojan:Win32/Fuerboos is presented as high-risk threat, this is often a "false positive". Therefore, the anti-virus suite detects a legitimate file as malicious and eliminates it. The
Search.safefinderformac.com is a fake Internet search engine similar to search.safefinder.com and isearch.safefinder.net. By offering improved search results, search.safefinderformac.com attempts to give the impression of legitimacy, however, this site is promoted via deceptive application downl
movie.globalappz.live is a fake search engine similar or identical to many others of this type such as search.hyourtelevisionnow.com, feed.streaming-time.com, searcholive.com, etc. Note that movie.globalappz.live is promoted using a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and a browser hijacker cal
Discovered by Racco42, Crypted034 is a new variant of Scarab ransomware. After successful infiltration, Crypted034 encrypts data and renames it by generating a random filename and adding the ".crypted034" extension to each affected file. For instance, "sample.jpg" becomes "fhs40-45.crypted034", et
According to PC Analyzer Tool developers, this program is capable of cleaning computers from various unnecessary files, fixing registry and other errors, removing infections, defragmenting disks, and so on. In fact, this application is promoted using deceptive websites that display fake virus aler
Discovered by Jakub Kroustek, the Bear virus is a new variant of Dharma ransomware-type infections. Like most infections of this type, Bear is designed to encrypt files and make them unusable until the ransom is paid. It renames each encrypted file by adding the ".Bear" extension and including an
The internet is full of fake search engines, including web-explore.com. This may seem to be a legitimate search engine (similar to Google, Bing, Yahoo etc), however, developers promote it using rogue download/installation set-ups (browser-hijacking set-ups). Most fake search engines adjust browse