What is LuckySearches.com? If you started seeing more pop-up ads or your home page replaced with a fishy search engine, it’s probably due to LuckySearches infection. LuckySearches.com is a browser hijacker known to change your browser’s settings, including your home page and default search engine (that you conduct from the searchbar). LuckySearches.com and the likes are usually not considered viruses,… Read more →
What is Bitable.com? Bitable.com is a browser hijacker that uses unconventional methods to infiltrate Windows system. Although technically not a virus, Bitable.com has many characteristics of a potentially unwanted program (PUP): It automatically changes your browser’s home page and search engine to bitable.com, usually without your permission It redirects your searches through bitable.com, unless you specifically go to your favorite… Read more →
Another week, another serious vulnerability discovered. This time Google has discovered an exploit in SSL 3.0 protocol, named POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption), that allows an attacker to calculate the plain text of secure connections. Apparently the bug has been present since 1996, when SSL was originally released by Netscape. Although SSL was replaced by TLS and other newer… Read more →
Dropbox has been in the center of attention again because hackers have leaked hundreds of Dropbox passwords on a Reddit thread, with a note that there are much, much more passwords available. Dropbox denied that their servers were hacked, explaining that the passwords were obtained through other online services. Since many people tend to use one password for multiple online… Read more →
Safe Mode is a special Windows environment where only basic Windows services are started. Essentially, Safe Mode allows users to revert changes made in normal mode where Windows can no longer operate properly. For example, installing wrong video or audio driver may result in a well-known blue screen of death (BSOD), where the operating system freezes with a bunch of… Read more →
What is Findeer.com? Findeer.com (can also be shown as search.findeer.com) is a browser hijacker, mostly targeted at Italian internet users. Although it may appear rather trustworthy at first sight, Findeer.com has the characteristics common to most browser hijackers: it uses tricky methods to install itself (via free software installers), modifies your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera)… Read more →
