Today I came across a number of reports about a newly-released piece of malware called Alrustiq. After looking into it, it turns out this is a Trojan Horse cryptominer – a malware program similar to Altrousik and Altruistics, which I’ve...
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How to Remove Rotq App
If somehow, a file named Rotq App has been downloaded onto your PC, do not open it or otherwise interact with it because it’s malware. More specifically, the presence of this file in your system usually indicates that the computer has an...
How to Remove the Altrsik Virus
If you’ve recently noticed that your PC is running significantly slower because a strange process in the Task Manager named Altrsik is hogging unreasonable amounts of RAM and CPU, it means you have a crypto-miner Trojan on your hands. Though...
How to Uninstall the Altruistics App
Altruistics is a crypto-mining malware that I’ve been around for over four years and is still somehow managing to infect people’s PCs and drain their resources. It’s certainly not the most harmful malware in existence, but its...
How to Remove Altrousik
The Altrousik app/service is one of the most common and persistent crypto-miner Trojans at the moment. This malware has been around for a very long time, appearing under different names, including Altrsik and Altruistics. Each of these rogue...
How to Remove Maxfirewall.co.in
If you are getting pop-up notifications in the bottom-right corner of your screen that come from a site called Maxfirewall.co.in and/or if your browser’s default homepage and search engine have been changed to that site, you are dealing with a...
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