Str-search.com may become default search engine of your browser without your noticing and permission. This happens following the takeover of your system by the browser hijacker. A browser hijacker usually crawls into system together with free programs and its sole purpose is to make money by displaying affiliate advertising.
Search-smart.work is a browser hijacker that comes on PC unnoticed, merged with freeware. A browser hijacker assigns Search.hhwatchingnewsonline.com as your default search engine, displays second-rate advertising, altered search results, as well as it’s the main cause of constant redirects. To protect itself from removal, it modifies shortcuts and installs helper objects in order to prevent its removal.
Search.hcouponsimplified.com is categorized as a browser hijacker which aims to invade browsers like Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Although it looks like an ordinary search engine, browser hijacker can bring a lot of trouble. Since it’s used for advertising, you will encounter altered search results, intrusive pop-up ads, and constant redirects.
Dharma is yet another edition of infamous cryptovirus that has already infected many users around the world. As a previous one, it employs AES-256 asymmetric cryptography to encode user’s personal files like photos, documents, videos and so on. During the encryption, virus adds an odd extension .[paymenttoday@firemail.cc].java to all of your files.
ScammerLocker ransomware – is a new dangerous virus, that is spreading the infection quite rapidly. Ransomware is a form of malicious software from cryptovirology that blocks all the personal files on your computer and makes it unreadable. First ScammerLocker infiltrates your system, then starts encrypting procedure with AES encryption algorithm. This ransomware adds .jodis file extension to the name of all the encrypted data.