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Snail Translator is advertised as a fast multilingual translator matching similar services by Google and Bing. Users that installed it, however, start noticing new ads on webpages they visit, high CPU usage and Internet slow down. This program can be downloaded from snailtranslator.com, but most of the time it gets on users’ computers by bundling with freeware. If you like to download free apps and don’t pay close attention during installation, often enough you get potentially unwanted programs like Snail Translator installed too. To remove Snail Translator ads from your PC, please follow this guide.
Hohosearch.com browser hijacker redirects your searches to hohosearch.com, which is not an actual search engine and just gets you results from Google. You may unknowingly install Hohosearch.com hijacker when you download apps from freeware websites. “Quick” or “Advanced” installation often gets more programs installed then you wanted, and you end up with Hohosearch.com redirects or some other undesirable browser behavior. If you want to figure out how to remove Hohosearch.com hijacker, please read this article.
Dolphin Deals serves ads, coupons and pop-ups into your browsers. It can get on a computer together with download managers or other free programs from the web. When you install such programs, they often offer you “quick” installation that will get some potentially unwanted applications installed too. Dolphin Deals is an example of these programs: once it gets on your PC, it will start to display ads in Google Chrome, Firefox and other browsers. To get rid of Dolphin Deals ads, see the guide below.
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Cash Kitten is advertised as a useful browser extension to help you find best priced services and toys for your cat on the web. In truth Cash Kitten is an adware program, and its main purpose is to show you ads and pop-ups when you browse the Internet. Cash Kitten can be downloaded from cashkitten.net website or be bundled with some other free programs. When you download freeware from the Internet, chances are very high that these apps will come with some undesirable programs included, if you don’t play close attention to the installation process. If that happened and you wish to find out how to remove Cash Kitten, read the article below.
Locky is ransomware not different from many others: it encrypts user’s files and demands payment for a decryption tool. Files stored in cloud services and shared files on local networks are also encrypted, so the only sure way to get back the files is to restore from offline backups. Even paying the ransom is not a reliable method: some users reported that the decryption tool wasn’t able to decrypt all of the files. However, some methods, like restoring the files from shadow copies, might work in some cases. If you were hit and want to find out how to remove Locky and decrypt your files, you can read this article.
Start Menu error made itself known back in Windows 10 Technical Preview and continues to haunt Windows 10 users months after Win 10 release. If you get “Critical Error – Your Start menu isn’t working. We’ll try to fix it the next time you sign in” or “Critical Error – Start menu and Cortana aren’t working. We’ll try to fix it the next time you sign in” error messages in Windows 10, read this article to find out possible ways to fix Start Menu error.
Security Defender (or Defender Pro 2015) is a fake antivirus that imitates Microsoft’s own antivirus utilities, Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Defender. Once it gets inside a computer, Security Defender starts to show a lot of alerts about suspicious behavior, “finds” dangerous viruses during scans and prompts the user to buy Defender Pro 2015 to get rid of found threats. In reality, Security Defender is the threat here, and you shouldn’t believe its claims. The sooner you uninstall Security Defender, the better.
Pass and Play is an adware program that supposedly helps you to find better deals on the Internet. What this really means is that Pass and Play adds banners and ads to the web-pages you visit. It is usually installed with free apps from the Internet: when users download freeware or shareware, they often rush through the installation and don’t notice that more programs are installed together with the chosen one. If you wish to get rid of Pass and Play, read the tutorial below.