My Sony laptop was seized by a fake anti-spyware called Sirius Win 7 Antivirus 2014 or Sirius Win 7 Protection 2014 which claimed itself to be a perfect security program. After this rogue program got installed in my computer, it claimed that my system was at low security level. So I was required to update the program to its full version to get ultimate protection. However, I was freaked out with fake antivirus alert displayed by this rogue program. My computer was frozen up every time the fake antivirus popped up on the screen. I’ve tried to uninstall it via the control panel, but it didn’t allow me. What should I do? How to remove this fake anti-virus software from my computer completely? Any rogue program uninstall guide will be highly appreciated.
Brief Introduction of Fake Sirius Win 7 Antivirus 2014 and Sirius Win 7 Protection 2014
Sirius Win 7 Antivirus 2014 and Sirius Win 7 Protection 2014 are fake anti-virus programs which belong to the Braviax/FakeRean family. It is distributed by cyber criminals to target worldwide computers running with Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 8 and so on. As a computer virus, it changes itself into various variants with different names and skins, such as Sirius Win 8 Protection 2014, Sirius Win 8 Antivirus 2014 and Sirius Vista Protection 2014 etc. Upon installation, the rogue program will launch itself as a start-up program every time you turn on the contaminated system. It pops up on your computer automatically and pretends to run security scans through your whole system. After scanning, this fake anti-spyware program claims that your current PC status is infected, as 37 infected files are found in your system. According to the scan report, you are required to activate your copy right and get full real-time protection with the registered version of the security program. However, this Sirius Win 7 Antivirus 2014 or Sirius Win 7 Protection 2014 is identified as a tricky and risky computer virus itself which does great harm to your target computer. It detects fake infections and displays alert messages to scare users and trick you into paying and registering for its whole version. In this case, PC users should get rid of the rogue program from your computer as soon as possible.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 14, 2014 5:13 am and last modified on November 14, 2014 6:20 am.
Hey, there, I bought a new laptop a few days ago, and I was told by a technical guy that I need to download a kind of anti-virus program to protect my system. So I went online and do some research, I just found a program called Rango Win 7 Antivirus 2014 or Rango Win 7 Protection 2014 which sounds that it can protect me from virus attack. So I downloaded it to my computer and get protection from it. However, it always tells me that the security level on my computer is low. Why does it keep telling me this? Isn’t it a good security tool? What should I do now?
Brief Introduction to This Program
Is it trustworthy for us to use this Rango Win 7 Antivirus 2014 or Rango Win 7 Protection 2014 on our computers? Nowadays, there are many anti-virus programs have been designed by different reputable online security companies. However, cyber hackers can take advantage of this chance to dupe people to download the programs which are invented by them. These kinds of programs have the same interfaces like the other reputable anti-virus software, which can confuse people to judge they are good for the computer security. What’s more, cyber hackers can use the forged description to strengthen the reality to convince people. However, no matter how beautiful and powerful the words are, the products made by those cyber crooks will never bring benefit for computer users. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on November 13, 2014 5:20 am and last modified on November 14, 2014 12:45 pm.
Hey, I am experiencing a browser hijacker. Now it is popping up ads from Search3.infomash.org. And closing pop-up ads seem to be in vain, because when you close one, another one will pop up at once. I go to control panel and want to find some suspicious apps to uninstall but cannot find any programs related with this hijacker. Actually I don’t know much about computer, and I need someone to help me get rid of it now. Can you help me now?
Description of Search3.infomash.org Hijacker
Search3.infomash.org is a browser hijacker that mainly targets users’ PC to invade web browser’s homepage and default search engine. For example, some victims may reset Google as the default search engine on Internet Explorer, but since your computer was infected with this browser hijacker, the search tool Google will be gone but the search tool of Search3.infomash.org will be there. And also your original homepage will be replaced with this browser hijacker’s webpage. At first sight, this search tool seems fine and no difference between legit search engines. Therefore, many victims don’t pay much attention to it but keep it on the computer and use it as a search tool, but when they look up something on this fake search engine, they will realize that it is a fake search tool and cannot help them to find out the results they expected. It will redirect you to those unrelated result and websites, and those results might be junk and malicious webpage. If you visit those webpage, you may be easily infected with other threats. Meanwhile, entering any favorite URL’s website, you just get to infected websites where ads, message banners or flash picture pops up to attract you to click on it. More clicking those websites receive, more traffic they will get, and more profit those hackers who create this browser hijacker will obtain. Therefore, don’t trust Search3.infomash.org. You need to eradicate this browser hijacker at once you find your computer gets infected.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 12, 2014 11:32 pm and last modified on November 12, 2014 11:33 pm.
Hi, my computer is very weird and should be infected with virus. My Malwarebytes always pops up on the right bottom corner of computer desktop to show that it is blocking a threat called fffSee.com again and again for many times. I really feel that my computer is running very slow. And I try to check something in system. I find many dllhost.exe or dllhost*32 are running in task manager. I don’t what to do with this since I am not computer literate. What can I do to save my computer? Any advices will be appreciated.
FffSee.com Virus Description:
Recently many victims have reports that they are always blocked by fffSee.com and multiple dllhost32.dll in task manager. FffSee.com virus is known as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\dllhost.exe process, which is classified a Trojan horse created by professional cyber criminals who are qualified with computer knowledge to attack computer and invade system. As we all know, Trojan is an infectious and dangerous virus to destroy windows programs and operating system. FffSee.com virus can cause PC crash mainly by modifying or destroying the system registry. In this way, computer will not operate normally. If you cannot fix the registry completely soon, the Trojan horse and other viruses will leave many junk data or files in system, which will also cause many problems to further slow down computer performance. Once this fffSee.com virus gets on computer, it starts to download malicious files to perfect its configuration or install other viruses on the infected computer system. Through copying or corrupting a legitimate Windows DLL files, the FffSee.com Virus is able to act as a Windows service. Thus, in particular, you may face some pop-up errors saying .DLL file is missing. It adds malicious registry entries to Windows registry editor, disable task manager and sometimes you even cannot install any new programs. And dllhost32.dll takes up an excessive amount of memory to slow down computer running, which is the reason why antivirus pops up numbers of registry errors, DLL errors, EXE errors and other obscure system errors. Once you find your antivirus showing fffSee.com virus, please eradicate it as soon as possible to avoid further destructive activities on computer.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 11, 2014 12:32 pm and last modified on May 27, 2015 5:28 am.
Have you got your Android Phone, Tablet or IPad blocked by the USA Cyber Crime Center Virus for something you never looked up? One of the victims Michael said:”I got the virus while I was on safari. I opened an email and it downloaded a video and when I went to look at it it locked my phone and said that i violated something for watching child porn, I would never look at that but an email put it on my phone and its blocked. It is my Samsung galaxy S5 that has been hacked by the government it said and i had to pay 300 dollars by using money pak within the next 24 hours. I was just doing some research on a project and this virus scam of porn came up and its asking for paypal cash, how can I get rid of it?
Brief Introduction to This Virus
When you get a warning from USA Cyber Crime Center saying your phone has been locked due to some safety reasons and all the actions performed on the phone can be recorded, what’s more, the page even claims that your contacts can be recorded and those people can be called by the police and your illegal activities will be known by your friends. Don’t be taken in! It is not real at all. It is totally a scam virus that has been reported by many victims in the USA. Now the virus hacks Iphone, tablet and IPad. People who encounter this warning should not be worried about if they will go to the jail for some illegal activities. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on November 10, 2014 1:32 pm and last modified on July 27, 2015 9:05 am.
Hi. I need help to remove dllhost.exe *32 COM surrogate virus. It is very tricky, because I also run my scanner to check and kill this threat, but it is in vain. This virus is still there and always pops up to disturb me, and I feel very frustrated. I search some info about this virus and know it needs to be removed manually, but I don’t know how to do, because I haven’t sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries, and I am afraid I may lead to mistakes damaging the system.
Dllhost.exe *32 COM Surrogate Virus Description:
Dllhost.exe *32 COM surrogate virus is an aggressive Trojan horse. Once this Trojan horse is on computer, it will quickly activate and attack system severely. This Trojan can plant its executable files into many places in the operating system, and change windows registry setting, startup items, corrupt key system files and adding new codes on the operating system. Therefore, when you start up infected computer, it will quickly activate to run on computer. Dllhost.exe *32 COM surrogate virus can damage, re-edit or delete lots of system files or processes. For example, some files related to antivirus programs may be severely damaged, removed even replaced with this Trojan horse files. Therefore, some victims say they cannot run their antivirus program. In this case, the antivirus has been blocked by this virus. And the firewall of the antivirus will be gradually destroyed by this Trojan. You even cannot download new programs to the infected computer, because this will be prevented by this virus. When your computer is not protected by antivirus, it will be easily infected with other threats. In this case, computer may be infected with more threats, and operating system will be occupied by more processes. Viruses can perform many destructive activities in system like dropping junk files, creating more system loopholes and inserting malicious plug-in into system or web browser and so on. What you urgently need to do is to remove this Dllhost.exe *32 COM surrogate virus to block it to do more damages to computer.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 10, 2014 6:20 am and last modified on May 27, 2015 5:28 am.
My computer was hit by this Adware Generic_r.UJ virus and it became to perform poorly. It got frozen up frequently every time I performed Internet searches and other activities on the computer. I was freaked out with lots of troubles caused by the adware infection. I can’t seem to get rid of the Trojan virus via my anti-virus software. What is the most effective way to deal with the Adware program? Learn more about the adware and get it off your computer manually with following removal guide.
Information about Adware Generic_r.UJ Virus:
Adware Generic_r.UJ is a malicious adware infection which brings computer victims a lot of troubles. It is a Trojan-laced adware program that gets installed in the target computer automatically. It launches and loads as a background program every time you turn on the victimized computer. As a vicious computer infection, it triggers many destructive damages to the computer. That is, the Adware infection should be deleted from your computer immediately. While being affected, your computer just results in slow computer performance and poor Internet environment. Many computer victims complain that script error, application error, system stuck and constant freezes can occur to the affected computers when surfing the net, playing games and running large programs and so on. In fact, the Trojan-laced adware infection gets into your computer bundled with rootkits, worms, malware and spyware, attempting to invade the contaminated system miserably. The adware infection is capable to destroy your system by messing up your files and entries. It also drops malicious items to your computer without your knowledge. What’s worse, the infection is designed to disable your security programs badly. Therefore, the adware virus should be removed from the target computer manually.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 9, 2014 12:37 pm
Hi, can you help me? I thought I’ve got a browser hijacker. This morning, I got a message telling to update media player to continue a movie, and I also choose to update. However, since when I updated this media player, I found something was changed. Whenever I search online, I always get to this website: MySearchPage.net, and many pop-ups showing from this webpage. It is very annoying. According those symptoms, I believe I got a browser hijacker, but I don’t know how to deal with it and get rid of it completely. Any help will be appreciating.
Description of MySearchPage.net Hijacker
MySearchPage.net is classified as a browser hijacker that mainly targets users’ PC to invade web browser’s homepage and default search engine. For example, some victims may reset Google as the default search engine on Internet Explorer, but since your computer was infected with this browser hijacker, the search tool Google will be gone but the search tool of MySearchPage.net will be there. And also your original homepage will be replaced with this browser hijacker’s webpage. At first sight, this search tool seems fine and no difference between legit search engines. Therefore, many victims don’t pay much attention to it but keep it on the computer and use it as a search tool, but when they look up something on this fake search engine, they will realize that it is a fake search tool and cannot help them to find out the results they expected. It will redirect you to those unrelated result and websites, and those results might be junk and malicious webpage. If you visit those webpage, you may be easily infected with other threats. Meanwhile, entering any favorite URL’s website, you just get to infected websites where ads, message banners or flash picture pops up to attract you to click on it. More clicking those websites receive, more traffic they will get, and more profit those hackers who create this browser hijacker will obtain. Therefore, don’t trust MySearchPage.net. You need to eradicate this browser hijacker at once you find your computer gets infected.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 8, 2014 7:41 pm
I need help with this TrojanClicker:JS/Chroject.A virus removal. My computer was terribly corrupted by this Trojan horse and failed to perform normally. I picked up this Trojan horse when I was downloading a PDF file to my computer. Immediately, I ran security scans through the whole system for several times, but the antivirus didn’t work it out. What can I do to save the computer? How to clean out the Trojan horse safely? Any Trojan removal instruction will be very grateful.
Information about TrojanClicker:JS/Chroject.A Virus:
TrojanClicker:JS/Chroject.A is a risky Trojan horse that takes control of your whole system immediately after it gets installed in your computer. It is a definitely unwanted program designed by cyber hackers to damage target computers and violate victims’ privacy on purpose. Upon installation, it launches itself at startup and loads as a background program. As a computer infection, it brings you a lot of computer damages and information loss. In fact, the Trojan horse takes up lots of your computer resources and it causes your computer to get slow performance. Particularly, it is associated with system stuck and computer freezes during your activities like surfing the net, playing games and watching videos and so on. Moreover, the Trojan horse is capable to mess up your system files and entries, and it leaves harmful files with random names in your computer. As a result, your computer can be abnormal. It becomes vulnerable for additional threats including adware, worms, rootkits and malware. If you keep this Trojan horse in your computer too long, you may come across unexpected damages such as system crash and blue screen error etc. To make it worse, the Trojan horse just disables your security programs and firewall. Thus, the Trojan virus should be removed from the computer manually and quickly.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on November 8, 2014 1:03 pm
Is there any way that I can utilize to eradicate the countless pop-ups from Smart Shopper? I have no clue how to locate the files relate to this thing. Now my computer is running extremely slow and I get disturbed by it all the time which drives me almost crazy! How can I solve this problem? It is really sad to have this annoying stuff on my computer. Please help!
Brief Introduction to This Infection
If you are bombarded by disturbing advertisements provided by Smart Shopper, then there must be adware or other malicious extensions added on your computer without your permission. Adware is the abbreviation for advertising-supported software which may seem as a regular program, but in reality it performs many evil activities on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and generating various advertisements automatically in order to generate revenue for its author. Usually, this kind of adware can come to your computer with the conjunction with other programs that you really need. Cyber criminals who design this adware can implant it to other freeware and publish them on the web for people to download. This is the main way for this adware to infiltrate target computers. Read the rest of this post »
Published by Tony Shepherd on November 7, 2014 10:01 pm
