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What kind of page is yourdailysecurity[.]com?

The purpose of yourdailysecurity[.]com is to promote questionable websites and get permission to deliver notifications. Plenty of pages share the same qualities, for example, totalnicefeed[.]com, yourdesktopguardian[.]com, yoursurveyprogram[.]com. One more thing that these pages have in common is that users do not visit them on purpose.

What is Perfect-Converter?

Perfect-Converter is a browser hijacker that causes redirects to the perfect-converter.com fake search engine. Due to the questionable methods used to distribute browser-hijacking software products, they are also classified as PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What kind of application is Prime Dark?

Prime Dark is the name of advertising-supported software that can show unwanted advertisements and read (and change) data on all websites. It is promoted using deceptive websites to trick users into installing it. Apps that users install unintentionally are called potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

What is kind of scam is PACKAGE WAITING?

It is a pop-up scam - a false/fraudulent message designed to trick users into taking certain actions. Usually, scammers behind it attempt to trick users into providing personal information, installing unwanted (potentially malicious) software, contacting scammers via the provided numbers, etc.

What is DirectConverterz?

DirectConverterz is a rogue browser extension that pushes the directconverterz.com fake search engine. It is classified as a browser hijacker, which in turn are considered to be PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications).

What kind of software is Ad Avenger?

Ad Avenger is advertised as a program that blocks online advertisements, prevents trackers from profiling users, and restricts access to malicious pages. It is known that Ad Avenger is an advertising-supported program - it displays advertisements instead of blocking them.

What is "New Incoming Messages Placed On Hold" email scam?

"New Incoming Messages Placed On Hold" refers to an email spam campaign. These emails claim that recipients have pending messages, which they can either release into their inbox or ignore. The scam letters promote a phishing website targeting email account log-in credentials.

What is Nero Cortex ransomware?

Nero Cortex is a piece of malicious software classified as ransomware. It is designed to encrypt data (lock files) and demand payment for the decryption.

Each affected file is appended with an extension consisting of four random characters. For example, a file titled "1.jpg" could appear similar to "1.jpg.u4sf", or "2.png" as "2.png.m8hi", and so on. Afterwards, a ransom note - "read_it.txt" - is dropped onto the desktop.

What kind of malware is Nope?

Nope is ransomware that encrypts files (and modifies their filenames), creates the "@READ_ME@.txt" text file, and changes the desktop wallpaper. It renames files by appending the ".toto" extension, for example, it changes "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.toto", "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.toto". Nope's text file and desktop wallpaper contain ransom notes.

What kind of malware is Robm?

Robm is one of the ransomware variants belonging to a family of ransomware called Djvu. It encrypts files and appends the ".robm" extension to filenames. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.robm", "sample.jpg" to "sample.jpg.robm". Robm also creates a ransom note (the "_readme.txt" file).