Police Central e-crime Unit (PCEU) virus  is a variant of international ransomware targeting UK citizens. The ransomware retrieves basic system information in order to appropriate popup relevant to the country of infected PC location. For example, users in Germany deal with Bundespolizei popup, French citizens find their computers locked with Gendarmerie Nationale alert. Naturally a [...]

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WIN32/WinMaximizer is reported when phony utility is found in Windows environment. That is a single program specific detection. It is only to be observed when WinMaximizer has got installed onto scanned PC. The program includes Slow-PCFighter, which is not an independent malware, hence no separate threat recognition routine is demanded. Removal of WIN32/WinMaximizer often poses [...]

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Gendarmerie Nationale Ukash Virus virus is a French modification of notorious locker trojan. It is a bit unfairly referred to as infection specific to the payment system called Ukash, while the financial provider has itself warned its customers against sending any money in response to such kind of messages. The French speaking virus demands 100 [...]

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Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT might be a false positive. The name is reported for files stored in system directory and having names of critical system entries. If the first and second conditions are met at once, removal of Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT would be a kind of computer suicide as such files as svchost.exe are absolutely indispensable for proper Windows functioning. [...]

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qkm.exe stands for a core component of Trojan.Agent/Gen-MSFraud. Other executables consisting of three digits have been identified as the trojan in the wild, too, but the file under above name greatly outnumbers the total of remaining instances. Geography of the threat occurrence is distributed among USA, UK, Malaysia, Canada, Italy and few other countries. US [...]

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Hooot.com pursues users as its owners have contracted hackers that spread browser internal controllers. The controllers are malicious applications injected through small breaches in computer security such as tolerance to Java applets. Their mission is simple: to redirect web-surfing to the above page at given spans. That is why users visiting this page hate it [...]

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Search-123.com loads its pages into browsers using assistance of browser hijacker that gives no regard to your attitude to the above website and its self-loading. No surprise there are no deliberate followers of the url save a dozen of venal users who have been found to support thousands of such pages for a miserable reward. [...]

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PUM.Hijack.StartMenu is a hijacker that affects Google searches. It displays enormous number of popups so that many users facing the issue simply go to Start Menu, but, to their surprise, find it missing, or its important options such as Log off and/or Reboot out of order. Remove PUM.Hijack.StartMenu as a special edition of hijacker that [...]

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Searchcompletion.com (hXXp://search.searchcompletion.com) promptly becomes number one preference for web-exploring as it is supported by illegal programs, unlike fair search engines like Google. The site owners, however, would deny any evidence of their using unfair and illegal tactics of website promotion stating they have nothing to do with any redirect agents running surreptitiously on numerous computers. No [...]

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EoRezo is deemed to be legit software product. At the same time, it is reasonably classified as a potentially malicious program by overwhelming majority of security solutions for personal computers, for the quality of services it renders is poor, yet the program generates ads thus acting as a browser redirect virus. Remove EoRezo as adware [...]

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