The online scams and too aggressive advertising are clear trends of today’s Internet. Newsdaily7.tv pushes a certain work-at-home scheme and praises it as an extremely enticing prospect. However, there are several ‘buts’ in this whole campaign. First off, you don’t normally visit the site from some link on a trustworthy site or directly – you [...]

If the scammers were intending to imply plural of ‘search’ in their domain name, they apparently made a mistake there because it should have been ‘searches’. That’s not the point here though. Vipsearchs.net is a hijacker, that is, a redirect infection that brings its victims to pages that are absolutely different from the right ones. [...]

There is one thing about Vkernel.org that annoys you once you visit it. It’s the pop-up telling you that you need to urgently update your browser. Another suspicious fact is that the page graphics incorporate a large Firefox logo which still remains there even if you are using Internet Explorer or other web browsing client. [...]

Abnow.com is an awfully annoying online entity. You are probably wondering how come a decent-looking website like that could possibly be noxious. As a matter of fact, the domain itself is not problematic. It’s the traffic driving technique that is causing a fuss of indignation on different security boards on the web. The issue here [...]

Antivirus Smart Protection is definitely not a safe piece of software. Although its interface has a little notice in the top right-hand corner reading ‘Genuine Microsoft Software’, that does not mean anything that you might trust. What is more, this affiliation with the reputable software development company is completely fictitious. Antivirus Smart Protection is actually [...]

Here comes another actively rotated domain maintaining the fraudulent traffic-and-click business. It’s hosted at Hooot.com – a fairly well designed web page with an innocent face but malicious essence deep down. Why is this hijacker dangerous and how does it manifest itself? You probably know a part of the answers to these questions as you [...]

Internet Security 2012 is rogue by classification and deceitful by nature. This application can easily bypass your security measures and install itself on your computer without any approval on your end. This fact gives the scareware an advantage of unexpectedness and wins it some time for preliminary system modifying activity to get implemented. Once inside [...]