Step-by-Step Malware Removal Instructions

New Tab Theme Buddy Browser Hijacker
Browser Hijacker

New Tab Theme Buddy Browser Hijacker

New Tab Theme Buddy is rogue software endorsed as a tool for customizing browser themes and wallpapers, creating personalized greetings, and so on. Following successful infiltration, it makes modifications to browser settings to promote search.searchworm.com (a fake search engine). Due to this, i

Dailyuploads.net Suspicious Website
Notification Spam

Dailyuploads.net Suspicious Website

Dailyuploads[.]net is a file sharing website which employs rogue advertising networks. I.e., it promotes various bogus websites that can promote other pages of this kind, unwanted applications, etc. Therefore, do not use dailyuploads[.]net or trust websites that it opens. At the time of re

Robotornotcheckonline.icu Ads
Notification Spam

Robotornotcheckonline.icu Ads

robotornotcheckonline[.]icu is a rogue site sharing similarities with the-best-push-news.com, alltopposts.com, reightpainf.top and many others. Once this web page is accessed, visitors are presented with dubious content and/or are redirected to other untrusted or even malicious websites. Typicall

ALVIN Ransomware
Ransomware

ALVIN Ransomware

ALVIN is a ransomware-type program. Systems infected suffer data encryption and users receive ransom demands for decryption. During the encryption process, all affected files are renamed following this pattern: "[rimon.argan@gmail.com][id=victim's_ID][original_filename].ALVIN", which consists of

Pizhon Ransomware
Ransomware

Pizhon Ransomware

Discovered by GrujaRS, Pizhon ransomware encrypt files, renames them, and provides instructions about how to contact the developers and various other details. Pizhon renames files by appending the ".pizhon" extension with a string of random characters. For example, "1.jpg" is renamed to "1.jpg.pi

The-best-push-news.com Ads
Notification Spam

The-best-push-news.com Ads

the-best-push-news[.]com is promoted via dubious websites, deceptive advertisements, and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). I.e., users do often not visit these websites intentionally. There are many other examples on the web including alltopposts[.]com, reightpainf[.]top and content4you[.]

Xdddd Ransomware
Ransomware

Xdddd Ransomware

Xdddd is malicious software and part of the Paradise ransomware group. Systems infected with this malware have their data encrypted, filenames altered, and users receive ransom demands for decryption tools. During the encryption process, files are renamed following this pattern: original filename

USAA Email Scam
Phishing/Scam

USAA Email Scam

Commonly, phishing emails such as this example are used to trick recipients into providing sensitive information such as credit card details, login credentials (emails, usernames, passwords) or other details, which could be misused for malicious purposes. Generally, cyber criminals attempt to tri

Abaddon RAT
Trojan

Abaddon RAT

Abaddon is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that receives commands via Discord. I.e., this RAT uses Discord as its Command and Control (C2) server. Additionally, Abaddon has a ransomware feature and could be used to execute commands to encrypt files. Therefore, cyber criminals might use this malware

Iiss Ransomware
Ransomware

Iiss Ransomware

Belonging to the Djvu ransomware family, Iiss encrypts files, modifies their filenames by appending its extension and creates a ransom message in all folders that contain encrypted files. It renames encrypted files by appending the ".iiss" extension to filenames. For example, "1.jpg" is renamed t