Mac Viruses

S3arch.page is an example of fake search engines promoted by a browser hijacker called Suls APP that is downloaded accidentally by reckless users. Apps of this type modify browser settings and impose their own view of how convenient browsers should look like. In fact, the promised value of smart algorithms supposedly meant to improve browsing is worthless. S3arch.page uses popular search systems like Google and replicates results from it. In addition, browser hijackers are categorized as potentially unwanted applications because they can track your data and collect it to pitch on the darknet and earn money eventually. If you are getting pissed off by S3arch.page, we will help you get rid of it in this tutorial.

Search.standartnet.com can cause absolute havoc over your browser by applying undoable changes - new search engine (search.safefinder.com or yahoo.com) and homepage appearance. These changes can affect your browser badly since they allow extortionists to spy on your data, collect it, and transfer to shady organizations or figures for revenue purposes. One more significant upset is that you cannot delete search.standartnet.com because it creates the UniversalWebResults profile that simply denies manual removal. The value of better search engines and other features are fake and cannot be taken seriously. This browser hijacker is a real threat that should be removed unless you want to deal with worse consequences.

Search.practicalsprint.com (or Practical Sprint) is a browser-based infection that tries to hijack your data. These applications are categorized as browser hijackers because they manipulate your browser settings and assign new features (search engine, widgets, backgrounds, etc.). It mainly affects Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari, however, other popular browsers can be attacked also. All of these changes are ostensibly meant to help you in surfing the net by generating smarter results and providing fast access to multiple resources. Unfortunately, all if this is a fool since it simply redirects users to legitimate Yahoo.com. We recommend you delete Practical Sprint to prevent data leaks and other consequences. The uninstallation process is mentioned in the article below.

Charming Tab (charming-tab.com) is a potentially unwanted application categorized as a browser hijacker that manipulates browser settings in its favor. It adds a new search engine and overall appearance of the default tab. The usefulness of this tool dissipates because it shows results from legitimate Google and does not generate anything unique as claimed by its developers. Installation of such add-ons can lead to potential privacy leaks (passwords, IP-addresses, geolocations, etc.) due to tracking capabilities. Unfortunately, simply disabling Charming Tab will not help, instead, you have to make sure that you delete it from your computer without traces. We will help you to do so in this article.

There have been lots of fake push notifications pop-ups deconstructed in our blog so far. Captcha.info is not an exception either proving that there is a countless amount of such tools around the web that you should know how to pass over. Captcha.info itself is a social engineering trick that stands for push notification pop-ups. In fact, push notifications is a wonderfull tool supposed to notify users about the latest updates on Blogs and other informative resources. Although, some gurus of the internet can make a reverse effect out of it by camouflaging malicious content under it. These kinds of advertisements generated by Captcha.info provide lots of malicious links and resources that can infect your computer and result in the inevitable leak of personal data, files and other sorts of information contained on your computer.

Developed by British company, SkyScanner is a legitimate application designed for Mac that analyzes flights, hotels and car hire databases to offer the cheapest and best deals from providers. Likewise other similar platforms, SkyScanner is very useful since it saves tons of time on searching for the tickets and combines them into a single application. However, SkyScanner is commonly distributed via malicious repacks that contain other potentially unwanted programs. Extortionists abuse its legitimacy to infect users with additional software like adware or browser hijackers without permission. This is why you should download SkyScanner and other legitimate software solely from official providers, especially if it is totally free. Unwanted applications can endanger your privacy and eat a lot of resources that slow down your PC. They are known to be altering browser settings in order to generate malicious redirects, ads, banners, fake pop-ups, and others. If clicked, all of this content can cause various infections like trojans, adware, browser hijackers and ransomware (which is the most dangerous) since it irreparably encrypts user's data.

Booking.com (can be also called Booking App or just Booking) is advertising application for Mac, that opens Booking.com website in program window on MacOS startup. Juging by appearance and behavior, this adware was not developed by the company, that operates self-titled website. Most likely, software was developed by third-party, that signed affiliation agreement with Booking.com and tries to earn affiliate comission spreading doubtful application with limited functionality. Window has weird name demo-app Title, the only task it performs is loading on startup and opening the homepage of Booking.com.

Seeing a title like Managed by your organization in your browser menu may raise up a lot of questions, especially about being infected with unwanted software. Of course, malware can hide its activity under "legitimate" covers like this, however, this specific feature is usually displayed because your browser is accessed by some organization. This can happen due to third-parties installations like Antivirus that set own enterprise policy for Google Chrome browser. Sometimes, you can log in to certain websites that are allowed to do these changes as well. Either way, if you are getting pissed off due to this entry, then we will help you get rid of it in the article below.