Virus and Spyware Removal Guides, uninstall instructions

What is MacShiny?

Developers present MacShiny as a high quality system optimization tools that helps to remove junk files and optimizes settings to improve system performance. Judging on appearance alone, MacShiny may seem legitimate, however, this tool can infiltrate systems without users' consent. Therefore, MacShiny is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA).

What is "DHL Express" email virus?

"DHL Express Email Virus" is a spam email campaign used to proliferate a high-risk trojan called LokiBot. Cyber criminals send thousands of deceptive emails encouraging users to open attached Microsoft Office documents. This leads to infiltration of the LokiBot trojan.

What is Nano?

Nano is a high-risk ransomware-type virus discovered by Jakub Kroustek. This malware is designed to encrypt most stored data (thereby making it impossible to read) and append filenames with the ".Nano" extension. For example, "sample.jpg" is renamed to "sample.jpg.Nano".

Once encryption is complete, Nano generates a text file ("#RECOVERY_FILES#.txt") and places a copy in every existing folder.

What is areyouabot.net?

areyouabot.net is a rogue website that delivers misleading content and causes redirects to various other untrustworthy sites. It is very similar to inewsupdate.info, trixtraff.com, sheinx.com, and many others.

As usual, many visitors arrive at areyouabot.net inadvertently - they are redirected by potentially unwanted adware-type applications (PUAs) or intrusive advertisements delivered by other rogue websites. Potentially unwanted applications are notorious for infiltrating systems without users' consent.

As well as causing redirects, they deploy intrusive advertisements and gather sensitive information.

What is inewsupdate.info?

inewsupdate.info is a rogue website. Like most sites of this type (including hilons.com, frigod.com, and fibeae.com), it causes redirects to other untrustworthy and potentially malicious web pages.

Users often arrive at this website inadvertently - potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) force users to visit it. PUAs generally infiltrate systems without users' consent, deliver numerous intrusive ads, and gather data.

What is trixtraff.com?

There are hundreds of rogue websites similar or virtually identical to trixtraff.com, including hilons.com, frigod.com, fibeae.com, etc. These sites redirect visitors to other untrustworthy websites. In most cases, trixtraff.com is visited inadvertently - users are redirected to it by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that deliver ads and collect data.

What is secure-cloud.pro?

Similar to hilons.com, frigod.com, fibeae.com and many others, secure-cloud.pro is a rogue website that redirects visitors to other potentially malicious and untrustworthy websites.

Users often visit this website inadvertently - they are redirected to it by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that are installed without users' consent. In addition to redirects, PUAs deliver intrusive ads and collect information.

What is brucelead.com?

brucelead.com is one of many rogue websites that redirects visitors to other untrustworthy sites. Examples of other websites of this type include hilons.com, frigod.com, and fibeae.com.

As a rule, brucelead.com and other rogue websites are visited unintentionally - potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) force users to visit them. Most PUAs infiltrate systems without users' knowledge and also record data, deliver ads, and misuse computer resources.

What is hp.myway.com?

YogaPoseOnline is a browser hijacker application developed by Mindspark Interactive Network. According to the developers, YogaPoseOnline allows users to access websites containing yoga poses, videos, classes, gear, and so on, directly from the web browser.

This may seem to be a useful tool for those interested in yoga, but in many cases this app is installed without users' knowledge. This situation also promotes a dubious search engine.

What is AppMaster?

AppMaster is a deceptive adware-type application that infiltrates systems without users’ permission. Research shows that this app records information relating to browsing activity and delivers various intrusive advertisements. For these reasons, AppMaster is categorized as a potentially unwanted application (PUA) and adware.