Adware

If your computer started acting weird and you see All-Radio 4.27 Portable program installed on your computer, this is cause for action. According to malware research, this, at first sight, harmless utility is, in fact, Pandora box opened on your computer. It infects your PC with a rootkit, a miner, a clipboard hijacker, a spammer, and information stealing trojan. Among first actions, we recommend changing passwords in any logged-in accounts from other safe machine. After this make backup of sensitive files, photos, documents, e-mails. After this you can use malware removal software.

Prime Updater or PrimUp! or PrimeUpd is misleading application, that pretends to be software updater, but in fact delivers ads and pop-ups in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It has basic functionality to detect and download browser and flash updates (although browser offer own updates themselves and Adobe has official updater). However, such trivial functional is given by a great price. Prime Updater gets access to browser settings, can download and install not only updates but also advertising browser extensions and runs on startup.

Chumsearch.com is unwanted search engine for Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers running on Mac. It is installed by browser hijacker along with freeware. This webpage is associated with famous Safe Finder malware and search queries, that user types on Chumsearch.com are redirected to search.safefinder.com and then to search.yahoo.com. This website overrides search and homepage settings in browsers, and hijacker module does not allow user to revert this settings.

Web Companion is legal security application from Lavasoft. It was developed to promote Lavasoft products and services by installing browser add-ons such as Ad-aware Security Search, Ad-aware Ad Block, Ad-aware Web Protection and Ad-ware Smart Shopper in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Although, Lavasoft is considered reputable vendor and applications may be useful there are some side effects and undesirable consequences for inexperienced users. This extensions modify browser search and homepage to either Bing.com, Yahoo.com or Yandex.ru, depending on your location. Those are not most wide-spread search engines and novice users complain of unexpected browser modifications. Ad-aware Smart Shopper can display ads, pop-ups and discount coupons on shopping sites.

PremierOpinion by VoiceFive Networks is potentially unwanted program, that can infect Windows and MacOS systems. It can be classified as spyware and adware. Some users report ads and pop-ups by PremierOpinion, some indicate survey pop-ups in the bottom-right corner of the desktop. Research of recent versions of PremierOpinion shows, that this application collects private information about users computers without any permission and transmits this data to its servers. This data includes web surfing habits, program usage statistics, computer configuration, e-mails, adresses. There are obviously many unpleasant ways to use this information.

SavingsCool (sometimes presented as CoolSavings) is potentially unwanted program, that can be classified as browser hijacker and adware. It was developed to display ads, pop-ups and banners on different websites. This can be realized via installing extensions in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. However, latest version of SavingsCool uses proxy hijack to drive traffic through servers controlled by the developers. SavingsCool modifies transmitted data to show advertising.

Any Search Manager or Any Search Manager by SafeFinder is advertising app for MacOS and extension for Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It is designed to modify browser search and homepage settings. After infiltration Any Search Manager takes control over browsers and changes default search engine and start page to search.anysearchmanager.com, search.anysearch.net, search.anysearchmac.com or other website of similar kind. All this domains used for search engines and redirect search queries to Yahoo, Bing or some third-party website. SafeFinder originates in Israel, and is also wide-spread on Windows-operated computers.

Stags.bluekai.com is domain used by service, that belongs to Oracle and provides marketing campaigns for commercial websites. Usually, users see pop-ups or dropdown windows from Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox regarding the safety of this website. For example, Safari can't verify the identity of the website "stags.bluekai.com". The certificate for this website is invalid. According to our research this mostly happens on while visiting Ebay, Amazon, but can show up on literally any website.