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What is Advanced Mac Booster?

Developers of Advanced Mac Booster application state that this app optimizes MacOS systems. It supposedly allows users to clean MacOS systems, fix various issues, thus improving overall operating system performance.

In fact, this app is classified as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and is promoted using the "bundling" method. Therefore, most people install/download Advanced Mac Booster inadvertently.

What is Carambis Cleaner?

Carambis Cleaner is a dubious application that claims to clean and optimize the system. Judging on appearance alone, Carambis Cleaner may seem legitimate and useful, however, it is likely to infiltrate computers without consent, since developers proliferate the app using a deceptive marketing method called "bundling".

For this reason, it is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA).

What is apple.com-mac-optimization[.]xyz?

apple.com-mac-optimization[.]xyz is a deceptive website designed to trick people into downloading and installing a rogue application called Cleanup My Mac.

This software supposedly removes fake viruses that this scam website has detected. Note that apple.com-mac-optimization[.]xyz is not the only web page of this type - these sites, and apps advertised on, them cannot be trusted. Furthermore, people often visit these web pages unintentionally.

What is Peta?

Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Peta ransomware belongs to the Djvu family. This software is designed to encrypt files stored on the victim's computer. To decrypt them, victims are encouraged to purchase a decryption tool and/or key from the cyber criminals who designed the program (i.e., pay a ransom).

Shariz changes filenames of encrypted files by adding the ".peta" extension. For example, "sample.jpg" becomes "sample.jpg.peta". It also creates a ransom message within a text file called "_readme.txt" and places this file in every folder that contains encrypted files.

What is Radio Now App?

Radio Now App is a browser hijacker and a PUA (potentially unwanted application). It is endorsed as a helpful tool for finding popular online radio stations, accompanied by a fake search engine. It is categorized as a PUA, due to most users installing it inadvertently.

Its functions as a browser hijacker include: changing browser settings and redirecting to search.radionowtab.com (a fake search engine), as well as monitoring browsing activity.

What is Shariz?

Discovered by Michael Gillespie, Shariz is a malicious program that belongs to the Djvu ransomware family. Like many other programs of this type, Shariz encrypts all victims' files and renames them by adding a new extension. This ransomware adds the ".shariz" extension.

For example, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.shariz". It also creates a ransom message within a text file named "_readme.txt", which contains instructions about how to purchase a decryption tool and key.

What is Online Manuals App?

Online Manuals App is browser hijacker. Advertised as an application for finding and accessing online manuals, accompanied by a web searching tool.

Due to the fact that few users install it onto their devices willingly, it is classified as a PUA (potentially unwanted application). As a browser hijacker, it changes browser settings, forces users to use its fake search engine (search.onlinemanualsapptab.com) and also gathers sensitive browsing and personal information.

What is "This is important information for you"?

"This is important information for you!" is an email scam. Scammers behind it seek to extort money from unsuspecting people by threatening to proliferate screenshots that have supposedly been made using recipients' webcams. They claim that they will proliferate these images unless a ransom is paid within a specific time frame. Ignore these emails, since the claims are false.

What is svip-center[.]com?

svip-center[.]com is is usually opened by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that are installed on browsers or computers/operating systems.

Therefore, most people do not visit this site intentionally. When opened, this web page opens other dubious lottery sites (announcing users have supposedly been selected as winners of prizes), scam pages claiming that visitors' computers are infected with viruses, and so on.

What is Breaking News Hub?

Breaking News Hub is a browser hijacker, endorsed as an application for accessing news sources with an additional web search tool.

It is categorized as a PUA (potentially unwanted application), due to the fact that many users install it unwillingly. Breaking News Hub operates by altering browser settings, promoting its fake search engine (search.breakingnewshubtab.com) and also tracking users' browsing habits.