Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Remove PUP.Optional.FreeCause that Trigger Freecause Toolbar and Ads

PUP.Optional.FreeCause Issues


Most of the scans come out clean but few flag PUP.Optional.FreeCause. Attempts to disable Chrome plug-ins will not stop the ads (including Multiple pop up ads advertising products to buy and pop up video commercials) that come into the computer along with PUP.Optional.FreeCause. Attempts to exit out of them would sometimes open up a new window directing to a website to buy anti virus software (as a matter of fact some of the program could be rogueware). Besides, additional applications are caught in sight to occupy internal resource without authorization, freecause toolbar and srp.freecause.comfor example.



What Is PUP.Optional.FreeCause


Some consider PUP.Optional.FreeCause mistakenly as Trojan, instead, it is PUP and categorized as adware. It works just like PUP.Optional.Iminent, PUP.Optional.bProtector and PUP.Optional.Conduit that support web applications accordingly. Such PUP is created to help preload corresponding applications into the system configuration and assist in manipulating settings without being flagged by installed security utilities.

Monday, April 7, 2014

[Know How] Remove Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi from Computers

Brief Introduction of Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi


Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi is a new detected Trojan Horse that mainly attack emails. According to the analysis report by Global PC Support Center that the Trojan is generated by a kit named   Bublik and is designed to help spread vicious codes through social engineering tools including email. Commonly, Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi may:
  • Lower Internet browser security.
  • Disable the computer's firewall.
  • Steal user and computer information.
  • Allow unauthorized access and control of an affected computer.


Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi Payloads


Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi copies itself into multiple pieces and injects them to some pivotal sections, such as startup configuration, Database, drivers concerning security service and browser settings. Besides, Trojan.Win32.Bublik.cfgi would generate Mutex to guarantee that only one piece of copy is executing at a time and add the execution into explorer.exe. In such case, build-in security applications would encounter difficulty in tracing down the Torjan horse and remove it automatically as explorer.exe is considered to be legit and normal.

Remove Searches.qone8.com (Omiga Plus) Browser Hijacker [Self-help Guide]

Searches.qone8.com Is Not Virus


Searches.qone8.com (Omiga Plus) is technically classified as a browser hijacker that serves to intercept traffic for Omiga Plus promotion regardless of what itself claims to be “the world’s most popular desktop enhancement for Windows” (as a matter of fact, no international brand will adopt such arbitrary and rogue means for promotion).

Such browser hijacker should not be carelessly considered as virus for it does replace homepage and default search engine without authorization. Searches.qone8.com is created to take PC users to the sites relevant to its product to achieve effective promotion. Then how searches.qone8.com browser hijacker manages to stick a machine and survive conventional removals?

Outfox.tv Invasion? What Is It and How to Remove Outfox.tv?

Outfox TV has invaded my Firefox webbrowser. In the past 3 weeks, Outfox TV has hijacked my Internet Browser, and has made itself my Home Page.
I am not sure how it got there. I have not downloaded any free applications..... I swear!  I found the program and delected the program file from my PC, changed my homepage back to Yahoo.....but the darn thing keeps coming back, popping up.  Scanned my PC virus, nothing.



What Is Outfox.tv?


As its name suggests, Outfox.tv offers video shows for PC users. It has its homepage. If one ever pays attention to the ads on its homepage, one could infer that most of the contents are free and Outfox.tv has to publish ads for fund to support operation. Such application is quite adept at using ads to work around, for example, Outfox.tv pops up some video ads to push its contents.



So You Mean Outfox.tv Is Not Virus?

Friday, April 4, 2014

[Know How] Remove/Uninstall Tritax Rogueware – Is It Genuine or Dangerous?

Features Telling Tritax Is Rogueware

  • Tritax installs itself without knowledge.
  • The numbers (more than 100 or 1,000 generally) of problems and infections reported by Tritax.
  • The computer mounted with Tritax is running more and more slowly than it was.
  • PC users are kept being directed to register page for licensed version in order to fix the reported problems and remove flagged infections.
  • Most of the reported items by Tritax cannot be found on the Internet or reputable computer help forums.
  • More error messages emerge to result in malfunction.



Tritax Definition 


Unlike what it appears to be, Tritax is a fake anti-virus program (which belongs to rogueware) that is created to defraud money. Filching the interface (the same that Windows Web Watchdog and other FakeVimes-supported rogueware steal) from one of the Microsoft anti-virus application versions, Tritax manages to gain credit and cheat people into downloading it willingly from some promotional sites. Actually, Tritax is capable of settling into a machine with the below methods: