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What is search.gravenday.com?

Virtually identical to studentslearnintogether.club, home.specialtab.com, quickgosearch.com, and countless others, search.gravenday.com is a fake search engine.

It supposedly improves web searches and optimizes download/installation processes (faster downloads, successful installations, etc.), however, as with many fraudulent web search tools, it does not actually possess such features. This site is primarily promoted by download/install set-ups of browser hijacking applications.

Note that search.gravenday.com and most browser hijackers have data tracking capabilities, which they employ to monitor and collect browsing-related information.

What is Accurate Weather Today?

The Accurate Weather Today app supposedly provides quick access to weather forecast websites. In fact, it is designed to promote a fake search engine by changing certain browser settings to accurateweathertoday.com. Apps of this type are categorized as browser hijackers and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

Typically, people download and install PUAs inadvertently. Additionally, most browser hijackers are designed to record information about users' browsing habits. Research shows that Accurate Weather Today is distributed and installed together with another PUA called Search Defender Prime.

What is Find My Nascar Lineup?

Find My Nascar Lineup is advertised as an app that can be used to find information about Nascar races, however, this application promotes search.findmynascarlineuptab.com (a fake search engine) by changing browser settings. Apps of this type are known as browser hijackers and potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

They often record browsing-related data. In most cases, people download and install browser hijackers (or other PUAs) unintentionally. Find My Nascar Lineup is distributed and installed together with Hide My Searches, another PUA.

What is searchpowerapp.com?

searchpowerapp.com is the address of a fake search engine. This fraudulent web search tool is allegedly capable of fast searches, providing accurate results, and other, similar browsing enhancing features. In fact, searchpowerapp.com and other similar search engines are usually promoted by browser hijacking applications, such as Power App. 

These apps operate by modifying browser settings and monitoring users' browsing activity. Typically, browser hijackers are installed inadvertently, and are thus categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

What is Email Search Tools?

Email Search Tools is a browser hijacker, which is endorsed as a tool for quick access to email accounts. In fact, it makes unauthorized changes to browsers in order to promote search.emailsearchtools.com (a fake search engine).

Furthermore, this rogue app also possess data tracking abilities, which it uses to monitor and record browsing-relating information. Due to Email Search Tools dubious proliferation methods, it is considered to be a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA).

What is DiscoveryEngine?

DiscoveryEngine is a rogue application, promoted as a tool capable of improving the browsing experience. It can supposedly provide fast and accurate search results, however, it acts as adware, running intrusive advertisement campaigns, delivering undesirable and possibly dangerous ads.

Adware often has data tracking abilities, which are employed to record information relating to users' browsing activity. Furthermore, DiscoveryEngine is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA) due to its dubious proliferation methods.

What is laddedmuzics[.]pro?

laddedmuzics[.]pro is a rogue website designed to present visitors with dubious content and/or to redirect them to other untrustworthy, even malicious sites. It shares similarities with mp3hub.com, streampoint.live, reforeperc.pro, and thousands of others.

Few visitors enter this site intentionally - most are redirected by intrusive ads or Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) already present within the system. Note that users' consent is not required for these apps to infiltrate devices. As well as generating redirects, PUAs can also run intrusive advertisement campaigns, hijack browsers, and track browsing-related data.

What is safari-extension[.]com?

safari-extension[.]com is a deceptive website that targets iPhone users. It attempts to trick people into downloading and installing an application called Net Shield.

We strongly advise against trusting software advertised on websites of this type. Furthermore, people do not generally visit them intentionally - they are redirected through other dubious web pages, clicked deceptive ads, or potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that are installed on devices.

What is PsiXBot?

PsiXBot is yet another trojan-type virus designed to record various user-system information. In most cases, cyber criminals proliferate PsiXBot using spam email campaigns and exploit kits. Therefore, PsiXBot usually infiltrates computers without permission.

What is Hakbit?

Hakbit ransomware was discovered by GrujaRS. Like most software of this type, it encrypts files so that victims cannot regain access unless they restore them with a decryption tool, which can only be purchased from the cyber criminals who designed the ransomware. 

Hakbit changes filenames of all encrypted files by adding the ".crypted" extension (updated variants append ".horse", ".turretsyndrome", ".pay" or ".crypt" extensions).

For example, it renames "1.jpg" to "1.jpg.crypted", and so on. Furthermore, Hakbit changes the victim's wallpaper and creates a ransom message within the "HELP_ME_RECOVER_MY_FILES.txt" text file.