May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove POLITIE Office Central virus (Removal Guide)

[Image: Politie Office Central virus]

The Politie Office Central virus is a ransomware infection, which will lock down your computer, and display a bogus notification asking you to pay a €100 fine in the form of a Ukash voucher within 72 hours to gain access to your computer again. The Politie Office Central virus is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop this trojan onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ransomware
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove České Republik Police virus (Removal Guide)

[Image: Ceske Republik Police virus]

If your computer is locked, and you are seeing a "Pozor! Váš počítač je zablokován kvůli alespoň jednomu z důvodů uvedených níže" notification from České Republik Police , then your computer is infected with a piece of malware known as Trojan Reveton. The České Republik Police virus is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop this trojan onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ransomware
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove Ad.yieldmanager cookie and pop-ups (Removal Guide)

[Image: Ad.yieldmanager adware]

Ad.yieldmanager is a tracking cookie, which is being used by advertising companies for user authentication, user tracking, and maintaining user-specific information (preferences, electronic shopping cart, etc.). Cookies are small files that websites put on your computer hard disk drive when you first visit. Think of a cookie as an identification card that's uniquely yours. Its job is to notify the site when you've returned. While it is possible to misuse a cookie in cases where there is personal data in it, Ad.yieldmanager cookies by themselves are not malicious. Some shady advertising platforms are using Ad.yieldmanager cookie to track … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adware
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove Alot Toolbar and search.alot.com (Removal Guide)

[Image: Alot Toolbar virus]

Alot Toolbar is a potentially unwanted program, which is promoted via other free downloads, and once installed it will add Alot Appbar, and change your browser homepage default search engine to search.alot.com. Alot Search will display advertisements and sponsored links in your search results, and may collect search terms from your search queries. Alot Toolbar got on your computer after you have installed a freeware software (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) that had bundled into their installation this browser hijacker. For example, when you install Alot AppBar, you will also agree to change your default … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adware
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove SnapDo browser hijacker (Removal Guide)

[Image: SnapDo homepage redirect]

SnapDo is a browser hijacker, which is promoted via other free downloads, and once installed it will add SnapDo Toolbar, and change your browser homepage default search engine to search.snapdo.com. SnapDo Search will display advertisements and sponsored links in your search results, and may collect search terms from your search queries. SnapDo Toolbar got on your computer after you have installed a freeware software (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) that had bundled into their installation this browser hijacker. For example, when you install SnapDo, you will also agree to change your default browser homepage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Adware
May 20, 2013 By 1 Comment

Remove Department of Justice virus (Removal Guide)

[Image: Department of Justice virus]

The Department of Justice virus is a ransomware infection, which will lock down your computer, and display a bogus notification asking you to pay a $300 fine  in the form of a MoneyPak voucher within 48 hours to gain access to your computer again. The Department of Justice virus is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop this trojan onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ransomware
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Remove “You shall not pass” virus (Removal Guide)

[Image: You shall not pass virus]

The "You shall not pass" message is a computer virus, which will block you from visiting Facebook, Google, Youtube and other websites, and instead it will display a picture of Gandalf saying You shall not pass. This threat is distributed through several means. Malicious websites, or legitimate websites that have been compromised, may drop this trojan onto a compromised computer. This drive-by-download often happens surreptitiously. Another method used to propagate this type of malware is spam email containing infected attachments or links to malicious websites. The threat may also be downloaded manually by tricking the user into thinking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Trojans
Next Page»