Malware Categories: Adware

Promodayz.com is an adware site and a notification spammer. Notifications from Promodayz.com show up as annoying pop-ups in the browser. They show advertisements – often deceptive, even dangerous ads. To stop Promodayz.com from sending ads to your browser, you need to open browser notification settings and block all instances of Promodayz.com there. Details on Promodayz.com: … Continued

PromoRewards is a virus – even though it might look like useful and free tool to you at the first sight. However, It is listed as an adware, therefore if you don’t want to experience tons of advertisements on your web browsers, we recommend to eliminate this malware as soon as possible. Developers of this … Continued

Promos.McAfee.com popups are ads that can be seen on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers. Although Promos.McAfee.com is not a malicious domain it can be used for advertising and it can be a symptom that your computer contains an adware. These ads are trying to promote several commercial websites. They are not harmful, but … Continued

PromoteQueue is adware that causes browser redirects, excessive ads, and possibly even allows more apps like itself to be installed. Also, it can collect the browsing history of each infected user. Overall, it’s quite dangerous. In addition, PromoteQueue is annoyingly persistent. You might delete it only to have it show up again a few days … Continued

Propeller Ads is a legitimate advertising network that was and might be misused by criminals. The advertisements from it are served from Ad.propellerads.com and might be signed. If you are see the Propeller Ads on some page, it is likely that they are legitimate. However, when you start getting popups on various pages or when … Continued

ProShopper is listed as an adware and that’s why you should not keep it installed on your computer. Once installed it will display various advertisements on your web browsers. It’s not only annoying, but malicious as well. That’s why you need to get rid of it as soon as possible. If your computer is infected … Continued

Protectium is a free application that strongly reminds of previously released BoBrowser. It claims to enhance your browsing experience by protecting you from visiting infected websites and increasing the speed of your downloads. It works with multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Unfortunately, users cannot trust Protectium, as it’s known to … Continued

In the virtual sea of notifications, there is a new sample called Pshntf.com, that is climbing to the top, increasingly affecting more and more users each month. The typical and outworn notification virus design and ‘If you are +18 click Allow’ slogan does not stand in the way for this threat to trick users to … Continued

PureLeads (or Pure Leads) is an adware that affects all the browsers. You will start seeing various advertisements signed by it (Ads by Pure Leads, PureLeads deals, etc.) on various shopping pages that show more “offers”. This application does not do any real price comparison, it shows advertisements that pay the most to the makers of … Continued

PursePerks is definitely one application that shouldn’t be kept on your system. Recent researches revealed that it should be listed as an adware infection, so it’s likely to display various advertisements on your web browsers. Even though we do not find it very difficult itself it’s still recommended to eliminate PursePerks because it can lead you to some … Continued

Push.machineflame.online is a notification hijacker. It’s a website that sends ads to browsers via notifications. Having your browser hijacked by Push.machineflame.online can appear like having an adware virus on your computer, tablet, or phone: pop-ups keep showing up on your screen, unwanted sites open on their own. Push.machineflame.online promotes some low-quality, even potentially dangerous ads. It … Continued

Pushails.com is an ad spammer that uses notifications to display pop-ups on your screen. It shows ads no matter what site you’re on. If you dismiss its pop-ups, it is quick to show new ones. To stop Pushails.com from doing this, you need to go into your browser settings and block Pushails.com from sending notifications … Continued

Pushedwebnews.com pop-up virus has been bothering users for a long time and now is at its peak again mainly bothering users from the US, UK, India, Germany, and Brazil. Nowadays web notifications are not uncommon and can be seen in pretty much all websites which contain news, articles, updates, sales, forecast and etc., but Pushedwebnews.com … Continued

Pushine.info notifications are pop-up messages, that try to get users’ attention by appearing on the desktop or browser with various ads, offers, and links. Web pop-ups is a very common phenomenon nowadays, therefore, it is no surprise that hackers are trying to use this legitimate feature to trick victims and lure out what they want. … Continued

Pushisback.com is a malicious internet site that exists solely to dispense advertising spam. Pushisback.com tricks visitors to allow its notifications and then abuses this permission to show a constant, unending stream of pop-ups on the victim’s screen. Ads by Pushisback.com can be dangerous because they let malicious actors spread their content. Luckily, the ads can … Continued

Pushishere.com uses notifications to deliver ads to those who allowed it to send them notifications. Only, there are two problems. Pushishere.com uses deception to get those notification permissions, so many people let them in by accident. And the ads that Pushishere.com spreads are of low quality, often verging on malicious. If you started seeing pop-ups … Continued

Ms.pushit.work pop-ups are definitely unexpected, especially when you see them as an ongoing process. You may have a lot of important things to do. For example, you are in the process of preparing for your tests at school or writing some important report for your work. Then suddenly ms.pushit.work alert appears and definitely distracts you … Continued

Pushlat.com is the form of intrusive adware displaying annoying push notifications. However, pushlat.com also works as a scam that tries to force you into enabling the aforesaid pop-up ads. The notifications may be enabled on both regular computers and mobile phones. Pushlat.com is a browser adware infection: Type of threat Adware, browser hijacker. Problem ads … Continued

Pushmenews.com pop-ups may become active in all popular browsers. You may initially end up on pushmenews.com website and nothing extraordinary will happen, unless you start interacting with it. The site will repeatedly force you to enable its pretty intrusive push notifications. For example, it may switch your browser into full-screen mode without giving you an … Continued

Active since late August 2018, Pushnotificationx.com pop-up was seen already by more than a couple million people around the world, but mostly Ukraine, France, Czech Republic, Russia, and United States. This notification virus is known to surprise its victims by appearing in their browsers during online surfing sessions, mostly from , online utilities like PDF file converters, … Continued

Pushsroutg.com is a shady website developed with the purpose of redirecting web visitors to the great multitude of unreliable content. On the other hand, it may also display some questionable websites. Most likely the pushsroutg.com pop-ups are generated by the active PUPs (potentially unwanted programs). If so, people are not controlling the behavior of their … Continued

Pushsub.club is a new malicious site that pushes malicious ads and redirects visitors to dangerous websites. It’s like an ad-network for malware. If you encountered this site online, close the tab. If your browser is being bombarded with its ads, block Pushsub.club from spamming you. Pushsub.club presents a message saying this: Attention! Click “Allow” to … Continued

Pushwhy.com is a website that either gets blocked by your antivirus or forwards you to unwanted websites while you’re browsing the World Wide Web. This blacklisted domain doesn’t appear to have any content of its own, so it might seem strange why it constantly gets flagged by security programs. But Pushwhy.com is nothing special – it … Continued

Have you ever noticed some notifications that just come flashing on your screen and it’s really difficult to close them without clicking on the advertisement? There are two ways to explain this – either you have visited a website that uses such service to monetize their web traffic, or your computer (or web browser) is … Continued

Putlocker pop-up ads is a problem for some people who visit these sites and accidentally invite their notifications. The ads might come from various URLs, like putlockerfree.sc, putlockertv.to, putlocker.co, putlocker.com, putlocker.cl, putlockers.me, 1putlocker.io, putlockers.net, and many others. Putlocker sites are ones that stream films and TV shows for free, often illegally. Such sites often don’t … Continued

PuzzleGamesDaily might look as useful application at first sight, but it’s just another malware that you should not keep installed on your computer. It is officially listed as an adware (advertising supported application) so once inside it will display various advertisements on all of your web browsers. Those ads are not only annoying, but malicious as … Continued

Nobody likes meddlesome people. The same thing applies to software: it should know its place and not enforce any unvalidated actions. Pvoff.xyz popups are driven by an advertising-supported software that can touch all of the preferred browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera or Mozilla Firefox. About Pvoff.xyz popup Pvoff.xyz popups do their best to convince … Continued

QkSee is supposed to optimize the loading speed of the images on the websites you are visiting, there are some side effects that you won’t like. Due to those side effects, QkSee is categorized as an adware and should be eliminated from the computer. If you have installed this application by yourself and find it useful, … Continued

qType.inspsearch.com virus is a browser hijacker that can be installed to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers bundled with various freeware from the Internet. You will notice it immediately after the infiltration. The program will replace your homepage and default search provider to its own and also complicate your browsing. Although qType.inspsearch.com looks … Continued

Qualitink is an adware program that was designed for promoting a bunch of websites. It is an application that displays pop up messages with coupons, discounts and other offers. These messages contain links therefore once you click on them, the program redirects you to various unknown websites. The purpose of this adware is to increase … Continued

If you catch Quicknewtab.com in your address bar, you might have a search hijacker installed. Search hijackers interfere with your searches for selfish purposes. Indeed, Quicknewtab.com doesn’t provide any useful function at all, it’s just there to make money from your web browsing. You can stop Quicknewtab.com from interfering by finding and deleting the malicious … Continued

Users tend to get paranoid when it comes to their computers’ security. Some people would rather plea guilty to a crime they did not commit instead of having their entire browsing history published. This might have been a joke, but malware analysts warn people that that such information is one of the easiest to reach. … Continued

QuizScope might look like useful application at first sight, but it is not true. Once inside this malware will flood your web browsers with various ads in all kinds of forms. That’s why it is listed as an adware. It is not very difficult to tell whether your computer is infected with this virus or not … Continued

R.adport.io is a malicious adware site that attacks browsers with deceptive ads. R.adport.io abuses notifications to send ads to all the browsers that happened to click “Allow” while on the site. R.adport.io’s ads deliver links to scams and malware while also wasting your time. It’s possible to stop them by blocking notifications from R.adport.io and it’s advisable … Continued

What is R.srvtrck.com and why is it appearing in my browser? This question was raised on cybersecurity forums and sites like Reddit. The answers given by IT technicians lean towards adware-type applications causing the R.srvtrck.com pop-ups and redirects. R.srvtrck.com is a sometimes-malicious website related to several advertising companies, including PopCash and PopAds. It is used … Continued

Rabsirolcalat.info website is a recent pop-ups and notifications causing domain, that has been reported for causing problems on users computers, both Mac and Windows. Actually, it isn’t a virus but just a misused browser feature, yet at first glance, it can come off as threatening and shady. While web push alerts is such a regular … Continued

If your browser is randomly generating rackcdn.com pop-ups then your entire computer is most likely damaged by an adware or a potentially unwanted program (PUP). The attack by rackcdn.com was noticed practically in all popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. According to the research performed by our malware analysis … Continued

  Rad Rater is another adware designed by SuperWeb LLC which is known for dozens of similar programs already. Computer users who got their computers affected usually start complaining about receiving numerous ads marked as brought by Rad Rater. This is one of the first symptoms that they notice. Rad Rater Ads can become very … Continued

RadPlayer is year another malicious application that you should not keep installed on your computer if you don’t want to face some severe cyber security damage. It’s not very difficult to indicate whether your computer is infected with this malware or not because advertisements displayed by RadPlayer usually are labeled with a slogan “Ads by RadPlayer” or “Brought … Continued

Rapid Check is listed as an adware and you should not keep it installed on your computer. Due to this app your PC can get infected with other viruses, it will work slower and you will definitely experience some crashes of your web browsers or other programs that you use. If that’s not enough – you … Continued

RapidReader might look as useful application at first sight, but you should not fall for that lie. It is officially listed as an adware, so once installed it will flood your web browsers with advertisements. Those ads are not only annoying, but malicious as well, thus we recommend to eliminate RapidReader from your computer as soon as possible. … Continued

RapidyWeb is described as an application that should enhance your web browsing by boosting your Internet speed. However, this description has nothing to do with the reality. It is listed as an adware and once installed it will display various advertisements on all of your web browsers. It is not only annoying, but also malicious … Continued

RarGenie is an archiver for Mac OS X and can be downloaded from Rar-genie.com without any expenses. Conveniently designed tool claims to serve functions of compression and decompression by dragging the selected files into it. Mac program pledges to offer a collection of compression formats: 7z, Zip,Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, DMG, ISO and equal diversity for … Continued

Read-this-hot-stuff.today is a malicious site that sends unwanted ads to your browser. It does this for ad revenue. On top of being distracting, many of Read-this-hot-stuff.today’s ads are potentially dangerous – luckily, you can block them in your browser settings. Problems with Read-this-hot-stuff.today: Type of threat Adware, browser hijacking. How the ads start Lies about why … Continued