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What is Shlayer?

Shlayer is a trojan-type virus designed to proliferate various adware and other unwanted applications, and promote fake search engines. It is typically disguised as a Adobe Flash Player installer and various software cracking tools.

In most cases, users encounter this virus when visiting dubious Torrent websites that are full of intrusive advertisements and deceptive downloads.

What is "I'll Begin With The Most Important"?

Scammers use the "I'll Begin With The Most Important" deceptive email to blackmail people. The main purpose of this scam is to trick victims into paying a ransom to cyber criminals.

They claim that they have recorded a compromising video of the recipient and will proliferate it unless the ransom payment is transferred to a Bitcoin wallet address provided. There are many similar spam campaigns spread via the internet, and none should be trusted.

What is XCry?

XCry is a high-risk computer infection that is categorized as ransomware. Cyber criminals use ransomware-type programs to encrypt victims' data and make ransom demands (they encourage affected people to buy a decryption tool). This particular program was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam.

After encryption, all affected files are renamed. This ransomware adds the ".xcry7684" extension. For instance, "1.jpg" becomes "1.jpg.xcry7684". XCry also creates a "HOW_TO_DECRYPT_FILES.html" file, which contains a ransom message.

What is search-operator.com?

search-operator.com is a fake search engine similar to search.tapufind.com, search-me.club, search.hogwarin.com, and many others. Most are promoted as useful and capable of providing more accurate search results, faster searches, and an improved browsing experience.

In fact, search-operator.com is promoted using a rogue downloaders/installers (including a fake Adobe Flash installer) that adjust browser settings. Furthermore, fake search engines often collect browsing-related and other data.

What is .Best?

Discovered by Jakub Kroustek, .Best is categorized as one of many ransomware-type programs. Ransomware is malicious software designed to encrypt files stored on systems and keep them in that state unless a decryption tool is purchased and ransom demands are met. This particular infection belongs to the Dharma ransomware family.

Once files are encrypted, .Best renames them by adding an additional extension (".best"). For example, "1.jpg" might become "1.jpg.id-1E857D00.[bestdecoding@cock.li].best". As you can see, it not only adds the extension, but also, a unique victim ID and the developer's email address.

The program displays ransom demand messages in a pop-up window and a text file called "FILES ENCRYPTED.txt".

What is butfirecrangu.club?

butfirecrangu.club is a rogue website that is very similar to bohemuchnehe.club, haphetititletleres.club, firearrest.fun, and many others. It delivers dubious content and redirects users to other suspicious sites.

In most cases, users are lead to butfirecrangu.club without their consent - they are redirected by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) or intrusive advertisements displayed by other rogue sites. Research shows that potentially unwanted applications typically infiltrate computers without users' consent.

Furthermore, as well as causing redirects, these programs deliver intrusive advertisements and record user-system information relating to browsing activity.

What is Xwx?

Xwx is a ransomware-type malicious program, a high-risk computer infection discovered by Jakub Kroustek. This program is a new variant of Dharma ransomware and, like most infections of this type, is designed to prevent victims from accessing their files by encryption. All data becomes unusable unless a decryption tool is purchased (a ransom is paid).

Xwx renames every encrypted file by adding the ".xwx" extension (plus a unique victim ID and the ransomware developer's email address). For example: "1.jpg" might look something like "1.jpg.id-1E857D00.[data@decoding.biz].xwx". Xwx also generates a text file called "FILES ENCRYPTED.txt" and opens a pop-up window containing a ransom message.

What is "I Want To Get Straight To The Point"?

"I Want To Get Straight To The Point" is a spam campaign that scammers use to trick people into transferring money to them. They attempt to do this by claiming that they have recorded a compromising video or ordered drugs and weapons using the recipient's name and stolen personal information.

By sending this email, they try to blackmail people by threatening to proliferate the recorded video and causing other problems if their ransom demands are not met. We strongly recommend that you ignore this and other similar emails.

What is hp.myway.com?

DailyFunnyWorld is one of many apps developed by Mindspark Interactive. It provides users with access to various funny videos, photos, memes, GIFs, and other popular websites directly from their web browsers.

Despite this, DailyFunnyWorld app is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA), a browser hijacker, since many users install this app unintentionally. Furthermore, it promotes a dubious search engine (hp.myway.com).

What is "THIS IS NOT A JOKE"?

People behind the "THIS IS NOT A JOKE" spam campaign are scammers who send this email to many people hoping that a percentage of them will take it seriously. The main purpose of this email is to trick recipients into transferring money to cyber criminals.

The scammers claim that they have recorded a compromising video of the user and will distribute it if their demands are not met. Note that this is just one of many similar scams and should not be trusted. The best solution is to simply ignore this email and others of its kind.