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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.

What is manualchecker[.]com?

manualchecker[.]com is one of many scam websites disguised as an official Apple web page. They are designed to trick visitors into downloading and installing various dubious software. The advertised software supposedly removes viruses that were 'detected' by a visited web page, in this case manualchecker[.]com.

In most cases, people do not visit websites of this kind intentionally - they are redirected to them by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that are installed on their browsers. Neither websites like manualchecker[.]com nor the software promoted through them can be trusted.

What is Web Gamer World?

Web Gamer World is rogue application endorsed as a tool for quick access to free online games. It allegedly provides easy access to popular action, adventure, sports, racing, girls, puzzle, strategy, and other genre games.

It is classified as a browser hijacker and Potentially Unwanted Application (PUA), since it makes unauthorized changes to browsers and promotes a fake search engine (webgamerworld.com). Additionally, This PUA monitors users' browsing activity. Note that this app is often distributed with another PUA called Search Defender Prime.

What is FileConvertPro?

FileConvertPro is a potentially unwanted application (PUA), a browser hijacker that can supposedly convert files online. Like most apps of this type, it promotes a fake search engine.

This particular app promotes fileconvertpro.co by changing certain browser settings. Furthermore, FileConvertPro is designed to gather various browsing-related data and promote another PUA called Search Defender Prime. Typically, people do not download or install software of this type intentionally.

What is Grod?

Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Grod is malicious software belonging to the Stop/Djvu ransomware family. It operates by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments for decryption. During the encryption process, all files are appended with the ".grod" extension.

Therefore, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.grod", and so on for all affected files. After this process is complete, a text file called "_readme.txt" is created on the infected device's desktop.

What is mp3hub[.]com?

mp3hub[.]com offers a video download and conversion service. People can use this page to download videos from YouTube, Soundcloud, and Facebook. We advise against using it for two reasons: 1) it is illegal to download videos from YouTube, and; 2) mp3hub[.]com uses rogue advertising networks. This website redirects visitors to various other untrustworthy, deceptive sites.