The SpecialSavings.com website offers users various coupons and deals, helping to save money whilst shopping online. The website appears legitimate and not related to malware infections. Recently, however, users report that they are seeing unwanted Special Savings coupon ads when visiting various
Disk Antivirus Professional is a fake antivirus program, the main purpose of which, is to sell a useless license key. This program is a fake security scanner that mimics the detection of various security threats on users' PCs. It then uses these bogus threats in an attempt to coerce users into pay
The FileBulldog toolbar is created using Visicom Media Api to enhance Internet users' browsing experience by providing shortcuts to popular websites. The program, also called FileBulldog, claims to maintain computer security by automatically downloading software updates. Whilst on initial inspect
Recently, many computer users reported that they observed unwanted ads appearing upon images when surfing the Internet. According to the reports, the ads appeared in Facebook, Wikipedia, MSN, etc. Following some research, our security team discovered that there is a new browser add-on (adware) dis
Savings Vault is a browser extension developed by 215 Apps (Excellent Apps), which displays coupon deals when Internet users visit various online shopping websites such as Expedia, Kmart, OfficeDepot, etc. This browser add-on is compatible with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla FireFox
SUISA is a legitimate organization from Switzerland which provides music-related copyright services. This organization is in no way related to a message that blocks computer users' screens, demanding payment of a 150 CHF fine for alleged download of pirated music files from the Internet. This mes
The AKM message blocks computer users' screens with the text, "Ihr Computer ist gesperrt", demanding payment of 100 Euro fines in order to unblock them. This is a scam, a ransomware infection developed by cyber criminals. Fake messages such as this are used to scare unsuspecting PC users into payi
The Sacem message ("Ordinateur est verrouillé") blocks computer users' screens, demanding payment of a 100 Euro fine. This is a scam. These messages are called ransomware and employed by cyber criminals to trick PC users into paying bogus fines for supposed law violations. This particular ransomw
Any message displayed by Koda, stating that your computer has been blocked ("Din computer er blevet låst"), is a scam created by cyber criminals. In fact, Koda (a non-profit collective rights management society that administers Danish and international copyrights for music creators and publishers)
The Luxorr message blocks computer users' screens and demanding payment of a 100 Euro fine for allegedly downloading copyrighted music files from the Internet. This is a scam, a fake message, which exploits the name of Luxorr (Luxembourg Organisation For Reproduction Rights) in an attempt to scare