Shield My Searches is an extension that is supposed to shield you when you browse the web. This tool is supposed to do that by enabling “private search”, offering “adult content” controls, and also disabling “Tracking & Profiling.” The tool claims that normal search engines track users and their searchers and that it can enable safety filters that, supposedly, can help you browse the web without facing security and privacy issues. If only that were the case. The reality is that if you install the extension, it can track you, and it might even expose you to push notifications and advertisements. ...
Koti Ransomware is a vicious threat that targets users’ pictures, documents, and other valuable files. To be more precise, the malicious application encrypts them with a strong encryption algorithm, which makes affected files unreadable. If your computer cannot read your files, it also cannot open them. The only way to restore encrypted data is to use decryption tools on it. Unfortunately, hackers might be the only ones who have tools that could restore all your files. As usual, the ransomware creators ask to pay ransom to receive them. The reason we recommend against doing it is because it is risky. ...
Have you installed SearchConverter thinking that it would somehow change the way you browse the web? The claims that this extension makes can be confusing. If you downloaded it from the Chrome Web Store (chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/searchconverter/aakboccpfalegnccglnkffcbpfigjfdj) – and you might have been redirected to it via install.search-converter.com – you were informed that it can change your default search, present optimized search results that are powered by Yahoo, and make it easy for you to access “search, images, videos and news” results. ...
Do you listen to radio via your web browser? If you do, you might think that Quick Radio Search is the tool for you. In reality, it is not as beneficial as it might appear to be at first, and while it might offer links to radio-related websites via its interface, you can add these links to your browser by bookmarking them. That might take some time, but you can personalize what links are shown, and you can avoid all security-related risks that this extension might bring with it. Since you have found this removal guide, we assume that you already have your reasons to get rid of this potentially unwanted program (PUP). ...