Brandon Skies

Brandon is a researcher and content creator in the fields of cyber-security and virtual privacy. Years of experience enable him to provide readers with important information and adequate solutions for the latest software and malware problems.

Trojan

How to Remove Altisik Service

The Altisik Service has to be one of the most persistent and annoying pieces of malware in recent months. It and a couple of other similar Trojan miners like Alrucs or Alrisit continue to infect systems and most conventional antiviruses are still...

Tips

How to Remove Cookies From iPhone: A Step-by-Step Guide

Are you noticing your iPhone running slower or acting up lately? The culprit could be cookies—those tiny bits of data websites store on your device to enhance your browsing experience. While cookies help websites remember your preferences and...

Browser Hijacker

How to Remove CelestialQuasaror

CelestialQuasaror is a browser hijacker extension that is mainly encountered by Microsoft Edge users, but the hijacker can also be installed in Google Chrome, Brave, and other Chormium-based browsers. The main change it makes in the browser is to...

Trojan

Trojan.Gen.9 Virus

Trojan.Gen.9 is a trojan detection of the heuristic type – a heuristic type means the program that detects can’t quite read its source but find that said source is obfuscated and thinks the whole thing is fishy. Frankly, Trojan.Gen.9 is...

Trojan

How to Remove the POSetup Virus

POSetup is a rogue software installer that appears suddenly on the screen and tries to trick the user into installing an adware called Premier Opinion. POSetup is extremely misleading and intrusive and if you are not careful, it can get the...

Adware

How to Remove the RairApp Virus

RairApp is a rogue adware app that installs without the user’s informed approval and then silently operates in the background, hogging the system’s resources and displaying invasive notifications. It appears to have similar...

Ransomware

How to Remove and Decrypt the .Hlas Virus Files

.Hlas is the latest virus in the DJVU family of ransomware, which is the prevalent strain that targets consumers in the last several years. Unlike other ransomwares, DJVU (the .Hlas file extension) explicitly doesn’t target enterprises...

Browser Hijacker

How to Stop Chance Encounter Line Virus Popups

Chance Encounter Line is a rogue website that aims to hijack your browser and spam it with obstructive pop-ups that are designed to scam you. The scam popups try to impersonate reputable companies, such as XFinity and Rogers in order to trick the...

Browser Hijacker

How to Remove MaxSearch

MaxSearch appears to be a newly-emerged rogue browser extension that has the sole purpose of taking over your browser and redirecting your searches to promoted sites. It does this by replacing your current default search engine with boyu.com.tr or...

Browser Hijacker

How to remove the Kittcat Chrome extension

The Kittcat chrome extension is an anchor-component of a browser hijacker malware we came across in our routine checks. It is new at least on the surface level. In reality, it is yet another rebranding of the findflarex.com extensions that lead to...