04 Sep 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware | No Comments »

Virtumundo Threat Level: Virtumundo is a minor danger

Virtumundo — AKA Virtumonde — is adware that launches annoying popup ads on your PC. Virtumundo popups pimp fake anti-spyware like SysDefender, WinFixer, and ErrorSafe. Virtumundo can also act as a keylogger, and record every keystroke you type, save this information as a DLL file (virtumundo.DLL, perhaps?), and send it to a parent site, putting your personal and financial information at risk.

Virtumundo is also known as Virtumonde.C, and “major rip-off.”

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14 Jul 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware | No Comments »

ZenoSearch Threat Level: ZenoSearch is a Pest

ZenoSearch is classic adware. ZenoSearch installs toolbars, ZenoSearch creates desktop shortcuts, and, most annoyingly, ZenoSearch tracks your search requests and web activity and drowns your PC screen in ZenoSearch popup ads, whether or not you’re online.

Nice.

Like most adware, you can get rid of ZenoSearch, or lose your sanity and throw your computer out the window.

Your call.

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23 Jun 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware | No Comments »

IELoader Threat Level: IELoader is a pest

IELoader is adware that tortures you with popups and downloading more adware and malware onto your PC. IELoader also might track your activity, add toolbars onto IE, change your browser settings, and, oh yeah, give you fun IELoader popups.

Did I mention IELoader launches popups?

IELoader is a little bundle of joy, no?

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09 Jun 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, BHOs, Browser Hijackers | No Comments »

Peppi Vorlagen Threat Level: Peppi Vorlagen is a Pest

Peppi Vorlagen is a browser hijacker that changes your home page, modifies your search results, and talks to its parent server about downloading more adware to annoy you with.

What else does Peppi Vorlagen do?

Peppi Vorlagen may also make you want to throw your computer out the window.

So let’s get rid of Peppi Vorlagen.

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16 May 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware | 18 Comments »

VirtuMonde is adware that launches annoying popup ads on your PC. VirtuMonde popups pimp fake anti-spyware like SysDefender, WinFixer, and ErrorSafe. VirtuMonde can also act as a keylogger, and record every keystroke you type, save this information as a DLL file (virtumonde.DLL, perhaps?), and send it to a parent site, putting your personal and financial information at risk.

VirtuMonde is also known as Virtumonde.C, and “major rip-off.”

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08 May 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, BHOs, Fake Antispyware | No Comments »

WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 Threat Level: WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 is a Threat

WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 is a Zlob.Trojan/Trojan Zlob toolbar that watches your web activity, sends this information back to its parent, and serves you popups and link ads. WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 may also hijack your web pages, block your URL requests, and download more pests onto your computer. Signs of WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1 include wanting to throw your computer out of the window, a little yellow triangle with an exclamation mark (!) in the bottom right corner of your screen, and tons of bad porn downloaded onto your desktop.

Wait. There’s more.

During WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1’s limited-time offering, you’ll also have a difficult time manually removing WinSecurity Toolbar 2.1, as the adware toolbar will often regenerate.

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29 Apr 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, Browser Hijackers | No Comments »

OKCashBackMall Threat Level: OKCashBackMall is a Threat

OKCashBackMall is adware that might hijack your browser and redirect it to Jokcashbackmall.com or another related site.

I’m sure OKCashBackMall is just trying to save me money and isn’t trying to steal my personal information or make money off redirecting my clicks.

Oh, yeah, I’m so sure. How considerate of OKCashBackMall to change my browser settings.

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22 Apr 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, Backdoors, Trojans | 1 Comment »

Web-MediaPlayer Threat Level: Web-MediaPlayer is a Threat

Web-MediaPlayer screenshot Web-MediaPlayer is a media player that might drop a Trojan onto your system. You need to download Web-MediaPlayer like you need more spyware and adware on your computer.

Which is fitting, because that’s what Web-MediaPlayer does: if you download Web-MediaPlayer from Web-MediaPlayer.com, besides getting a visit from a backdoor Trojan, you may also get tons of Web-MediaPlayer popups.

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12 Apr 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, Browser Hijackers | 4 Comments »

ZangoSearch Threat Level: ZangoSearch is a minor threat

ZangoSearch is adware that watches your Internet Explorer windows. When ZangoSearch sees certain keywords in shopping pages or in your search, ZangoSearch launches its partner pages.

How thoughtful of ZangoSearch.

You’ll probably want to remove ZangoSearch, and be careful: ZangoSearch can repair itself if it’s only partially removed.

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17 Mar 2008 | By Kristopher | Posted under Adware, Trojans | 2 Comments »

Celldorado Threat Level: Celldorado is a medium threat

Celldorado is a trojan that launches annoying popup ads on your computer and secretly download harmful files. Because Celldorado runs tons of popup ads, Celldorado really slows down your computer. Like Vundo, its father, Celldorado may secretly run on every Windows startup.

As much as I like Celldorado popups slowing down my system, I might just remove Celldorado.

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