BringMeSports Toolbar is a deceptive toolbar that promises to show you different sports news, broadcast events, etc. Actually, it's adware. Once it is installed the extension changes your browser homepage and default search engine to mywebsearch.com. Despite that this toolbar doesn't cause severe damage to your system, countless annoying ads may slow down your system performance.
SurfBuyer is an adware application, similar to My WebEnhancer, My ShopMate, MyShopBot and a number of identical programs. All these applications claim to help you by providing useful features like special discounts on e-shops, favourable offers and other advantageous features. Nevertheless, it’s not true. The only and one purpose of such applications is to earn a profit on users’ carelessness.
SmarterMac is an adware that able to display numerous ads in your browsers such as sound and video ads, pop-ups, in-text ads, etc. This infection lures the users by showing the various tempting offers. Be aware, after clicking on the one these ads you can be infected with the more dangerous virus. SmarterMac also changes your browser settings, no whether what it is, such as the default homepage, search engine, and the alerting function.
Atwola is a name of cookie that tracks the computer user's browsing activity and interests. Gathering all the required information, it displays different ads, banners, pop-up ads in browser. Atwola cookie is not a virus, because it doesn’t harm the computer, but it may freeze the browsing. Besides, unreliable ads often contain links to untrustworthy and suspicious web pages where you could get a real virus. This infection supports almost all well-known browsers as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari.
Aesir is another ransomware-type virus from Locky family. It still uses RSA-2048 and AES-128 algorithms to encrypt user files. Now virus targets more than 450 types of files. After encrypting
malware adds .aesir suffix and modifies filenames. Aesir ransomware demands user to pay ransom of 3 BitCoins (~$2200) to decrypt files, but never send the keys. Ransomware creates 3 files on users computers: INSTRUCTION.bmp, -INSTRUCTION.html and _1-INSTRUCTION.html. This files contain instructions for users to pay the ransom and get decryptor. Image is used to set as background and also contains ransom-note with payment details.
