This is another story about a site that is not visited upon users’ consent but instead gets hit as a result of web search redirection trickery. The URL is Theifinder.com and it’s one of the hundreds of live domains involved in the scheme of rendering illegal web traffic tangible. The problem that might have brought [...]

This has been a bad day for some innocent computer users, and apparently quite a lucrative one for hackers. I’ve spotted some fuss about a program called Advanced PC Shield 2012 (aka Advanced Shield Pro) in the antimalware community. Just as I expected, it’s nothing but a new rogue AV that’s obviously hailing from the [...]

Total Protect (aka Total Protect Antivirus Solution or Total Protect 2011) is a sample of treacherous malware that poses as something else. It lures computer users into making thoughtless and needless payments. How does it do that? It’s simple, just as it’s with any other average fake antivirus tool. The whole brain power of Total [...]

Famoussearchserver.com is one of about thirty other connected malicious domains registered by the same group of cybercrooks. It is unlike a regular site or a search service that it claims to be. The trick is in its goals and especially in the way you get to the site itself. Many of you guys must have [...]

Get-answers-fast.com is a hijacker. Do you know what that means? Anyway, I’m going to tell you right away. A hijacker is a malicious software entity affecting one’s web-surfing in a most obnoxious way. The side effects of this activity may vary and range from banal substitution of any website you try to visit directly with [...]

Security Defense is a rogue antivirus utility. It uses some intricate schemes to make you arrive at a conclusion that your computer is not safe because it’s supposedly swarming with nastiest of infections. In its fake scan results, it lists trojan horses (Backdoor.Win32.Scrab.p), worms (such as Email-Worm.Brontok, W32.Blaster.Worm etc.), spyware and other dangerous parasites whose [...]

Data Recovery is way too fraudulent for any computer user to trust and follow its pointless recommendations. This program squeezes money earning opportunities out of most shameful and disgusting schemes. It goes too far in persuading people their PCs have some errors that are in fact something the hackers made up before this application actually [...]