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What is Smart Searching Tab?
As its name suggests, Smart Searching Tab is an app designed to improve the browsing experience, however, it is actually designed to promote hsmartsearching.net (the address of a fake search engine) and collect browsing data. I.e., Smart Searching Tab is a browser hijacker designed to promote a fake search engine.
Typically, apps of this type promote search engines by modifying certain browser settings. Few users download or install apps such as Smart Searching Tab intentionally. Therefore, they are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). This app is distributed and installed together with another PUA called Hide My History.
What is StockCommon?
StockCommon is an adware-type application, which serves various advertisements via the user interface. Additionally, it is designed to promote the Safe Finder website through another dubious web address (akamaihd.net). Commonly, apps of this type not only serve ads but also collect information relating to users' browsing habits.
StockCommon is likely to have these characteristics. People often download and install adware inadvertently. For this reason, apps such as StockCommon are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).
What is HimeraLoader?
HimeraLoader is a malicious program used by cyber criminals who seek to infect computers with other programs of this kind (e.g., ransomware, remote access Trojans). Research shows that it was available for purchase on hacker forums at a cost of 700 rubles.
Typically, cyber criminals attempt to infect systems with HimeraLoader so that they can use its payload to generate as much revenue as possible. If there is reason to believe that your computer is infected with HimeraLoader or other malware, uninstall it immediately.
What is thenickelpress[.]com?
Sharing many similarities with behavingsoping.club, superinterestinginfo.info, redbearmobilecuisine.com and thousands of others, thenickelpress[.]com is a rogue website. Visitors to this site are presented with dubious content and/or are redirected to other untrusted or malicious web pages.
Most users enter these sites unintentionally - they are redirected by intrusive ads or Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) already infiltrated into the system. These apps do not require express user permission to be installed onto devices. PUAs cause redirects, run intrusive advertisement campaigns and track browsing-related information.
What is SkilledEntry?
SkilledEntry is a rogue application classified as adware. It runs intrusive advertisement campaigns, delivering various unwanted and harmful ads. Additionally, SkilledEntry shares traits with browser hijackers, such as browser settings modification to promote rogue search engines.
This application promotes Safe Finder via akamaihd.net. Due to the dubious methods used to proliferate SkilledEntry, it is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). Most PUAs also have data tracking capabilities, and this is likely to be the case with SkilledEntry.
What is the "System Warning Alert" scam?
"System Warning Alert" is a technical support scam claiming that users' devices have been infected with spyware and other viruses. This scheme urges people to immediately contact 'tech support' by calling a supposedly toll-free telephone number. Note that no web page can detect threats or issues present within a system - any that much such claims are scams.
Sites running "System Warning Alert" and similar schemes are typically accessed via redirects caused by intrusive advertisements or Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) already infiltrated into the system.
What is Dodged ransomware?
Discovered by MalwareHunterTeam, Dodged ransomware encrypts victims' files, changes filenames, disables Task Manager and displays a pop-up window containing the ransom message. Dodged renames encrypted files by appending the ".dodged" extension to filenames. For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.dodged", "2.jpg" to "2.jpg.dodged", and so on.
The pop-up window displayed by Dodged ransomware contains instructions about how to decrypt files and pay the ransom.
What is ProgressStart?
ProgressStart is a rogue application classified as adware. It delivers intrusive ad campaigns. Additionally, ProgressStart possesses browser hijacker traits such as browser modification and fake search engine promotion. This app promotes Safe Finder through the akamaihd.net website.
Since most users download/install ProgressStart unintentionally, it is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). Most PUAs track browsing-related information, and it is highly likely that ProgressStart also has these capabilities.
What is Easy Forms?
Easy Forms is a rogue application categorized as a browser hijacker. This app is advertised as a quick access tool to various popular forms. In fact, it operates by altering browser settings to promote heasyforms.com (a fake search engine). Furthermore, this browser hijacker monitors users' browsing activity.
Since most users download/install Easy Forms unintentionally, it is also classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA). Easy Forms is often distributed together with another PUA called History Hide.
What is TechnologyCustom?
TechnologyCustom is a potentially unwanted application (PUA), which is designed to display various online advertisements. It also promotes the Safe Finder web page by opening it via akamaihd.net. TechnologyCustom is categorized as a PUA, since most users do not download or install this adware intentionally.
Note that apps such as TechnologyCustom not only serve ads but also collect data relating to users' browsing habits.
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