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Custom Search (customsearch.info) is an unwanted browser extension combining the traits of adware and browser hijackers. The reason for that lies in its post-installation behavior - it changes the default search engine and homepage address to find.customsearch.info and also starts generating additional ads using virtual layers. Many search engines promoted by browser hijackers are fake - they are unable to provide unique and authentic search results. This is why they use legitimate engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing to display results and earn money on illegal traffic. Adware is a type of software designed to promote various pop-ups, ads, buttons, and coupons which redirect to suspicious or even dangerous websites. Custom Search may use such capabilities to earn extra commissions on visits from affiliated websites. Although the removal of such extensions should be quite primitive, it is not always like this. Developers behind unwanted software may install additional settings preventing users from easy removal. As evidence of this, you can see a message like "Managed by your organization" or "Custom Search is controlling this setting" in the browser menu. Thus, if you are struggling to get rid of this adware-hijacker, follow our tutorial below.

Do you get an error message while trying to update or restore your iPhone through iTunes? - Then this guide will be helpful for you. Error 2009 is a popular and widely-complaint iTunes issue among the likes of other similar error codes such as 53, 14, 2016, 1110, 3194, etc. Users facing this problem encounter a message saying this text: "The iPhone [device name] could not be restored/updated. An unknown error occurred (2009)". As a result, no further continuation of updating or device restoration will take place due to the error occurrence. Reasons for why such errors arouse are not binary - they can be caused by outdated software, internal and third-party conflicts, system glitches, and other unknown reasons. Below, we have compiled a list of instructions to help you deal with the error 2009 potentially. Follow carefully each step after each until you find the working solution.

Pipikaki is a recent devastating ransomware infection reported by victims on forums. Malware of this type is also known as crypto-viruses, designed to encrypt system-stored data and blackmail victims into paying money for its return. Pipikaki does exactly the same renaming targetted files with the victim's ID and .@PIPIKAKI extension during encryption. For instance, a previously named file 1.pdf will change to 2.pdf.[8A56562E].@PIPIKAKI or similarly depending on a victim's ID. Instructions on how to return restricted files are then presented inside of a file named WE CAN RECOVER YOUR DATA.txt. The ransom note guides users to contact developers (via Skype, ICQ Live chat, or pipikaki@onionmail.org e-mail) and negotiate about returning the data. As a rule, many cybercriminals ask their victims to pay a certain amount of monetary ransom (most often in cryptocurrencies). It is also said that noncompliance with what swindlers demand will result in the publication of all sensitive data. They threaten to leak important business-related information (clients' data, bills, annual reports, etc.) which was collected from the encrypted machine/network.

SHIBA (SHIB) Giveaway is presented as a legitimate giveaway campaign meant to globalize the use of Shiba Inu, a cryptocurrency supported by Elon Musk. In fact, this is a pure scam intended to extort money from naive people. The Giveaway website claims it will double your coins right after you send them. The amount of coins that can be sent is between 200,000,000 SHIB to 15,000,000,000 SHIB. In dollars, this is 3,000 - 200,000 $. Users are unable to send small amounts of money to test if this scheme actually works. This instantly says they cannot be trusted and should be avoided no matter how attractive it seems. It is less likely that somebody will throw money like this just because there is nothing to profit from. The total giveaway pool is 1 trillion Shiba Inu coins - about 30 Million dollars. Websites like this are very popular across the entire web. Users can be redirected to them after clicking on dubious ads, buttons, or links that are located on unreliable pages. In this case, it is enough to close the page and prevent yourself from getting baited into a scam. However, if you see scam pages like SHIBA (SHIB) Giveaway each time at browser setup, this means some unwanted program like adware or browser hijacker has brought new values into your system to display the page. Users infected with unwanted software experience a number of browsing problems. Sessions may be accompanied by unexpected redirects, overwhelming amounts of ads, and other suspicious content that diminish your usage significantly. In addition, potentially unwanted programs may also stealthily track what you do on the internet. Passwords, IP-addresses, Banking credentials, and other valuable information can be captured and used by cybercriminals for personal benefit in the future. Therefore, it is important to detect and remove it from your system as soon as possible. Our guide below will help you do this.

There is no doubt that e-mail has already taken a large part of people's online activity these days. It is now the main departure point for registering at various websites and resources. Any internet user has at least one, if not many e-mail addresses registered and used for various goals, be it a person-to-person communication, receiving different newsletters, updates, or simply as a two-level authentication tool for log-in security measures. While this all sounds useful indeed, there is a dark side to this - a huge and new opportunity for cybercriminals to deliver illegitimate and intentionally malicious content to users. Such a phenomenon is known as e-mail spam. Many e-mail services are always developing new and improving existing algorithms to detect potential spam and prevent inexperienced users from falling into the evil hands of various frauds. These anti-spam mechanisms are educated enough to identify potentially unwanted messages based on different triggers (sender's IP-address reputation, spammy language content, world-known blacklists, etc.). Having some e-mail letters categorized as spam should push users to be more careful and less trustworthy with regard to the message. Unfortunately, there are cases when spam goes undetected being delivered straight into your Inbox. A large number of newsletter subscriptions accumulated over long-time usage can also create a flood of unnecessary messages blurring your eye. Whatever it is, we are going to show how one can get rid of e-mail spam and slow its frequency rates. The guide below will give useful recommendations with guidelines for the world's most used e-mail services like Gmail, Yahoo, Apple Mail, and Microsoft Outlook.

WhatsApp has become one of the most reliant means of communication these days. It is not only a way of exchanging keyboard-written messages but also a bridge for sharing photos and videos of different sizes. It may feel terrible when some important piece of information, be it a video, image, or simply text, gets accidentally deleted and lost, therefore. Luckily, deleting some data in WhatsApp does not mean you are destined to lose it forever. This is what we are going to discuss below - 3 easy ways to help you recover your files deleted from WhatsApp on Android for free.

Axxes is a ransomware virus. Infections of this type are designed to prevent users from accessing their personal data. This is done through the so-called encryption process usually followed by attempts to blackmail victims into paying money for data return. After successfully attacking a system, Axxes enciphers targeted files and renames them using the .axxes extension. To illustrate, a regular file like 1.png will change to 1.png.axxes and reset its icon as well. The rest of the data will be renamed based on the same pattern as well. Next, the virus creates two files containing decryption instructions (RESTORE_FILES_INFO.hta and RESTORE_FILES_INFO.txt). Cybercriminals say all business- and employee-related data has been both encrypted and uploaded to external servers. Should victims refuse to collaborate with the developers, the latter claim they hold their right to publish victims' data on specialized resources. To avoid this, victims are guided to open Tor Browser at the attached website address and contact swindlers to pay for decryption. The onion page also displays a number of tabs including what other companies have been compromised by the virus already. It is unfortunate, but for now, there are no free means to decrypt Axxes files completely. Furthermore, cutting all the ends with cybercriminals will definitely motivate them to leak your collected data.

Recently discovered by a malware researcher named Petrovic, GonnaCope is a ransomware infection able to encrypt system-stored data. Research showed that it also deletes and replaces some data with random and pointless files, which appear with the .cope extension. On the other hand, files encrypted by GonnaCope do not change in their appearance and remain exactly the same yet no longer accessible. To get access back to encrypted files, swindlers behind the virus guide victims to complete a 100$ transfer (in Bitcoin) to the crypto-address attached in the ReadMe.txt note. In addition, it also displays a cmd window with almost identical information. After sending the money, ransomware developers promise to provide their victims with a decryption key to return the data. Whether cybercriminals can be trusted or not is never without uncertainty. In general, frauds have a bad reputation since they are able to fool you and not send any promised decryption tools at the end. Either way, they are the only figures who have the ability to decrypt your data at this moment. Victims can avoid paying the ransom only if there are backup copies available on external devices. This way, they can be used to recover encrypted and no longer usable files. If you are not in favor of paying the required ransom and you do not have backups to use, you can still put your hand to using third-party tools - there is a chance they will be able to help under some circumstances.