Tim Kas

Tim Kas

Computer security specialist. I try to do my best and share my knowledge with you by creating simple-to-follow and useful guides on various topics about computer security.

How to uninstall (remove) Chromesearch.win

Chromesearch.win is another alias of famous browser hijacker, that resembles standard Google Chrome startup page and modifies search engine and homepage settings. It mostly attacks Google Chrome, bu sometimes can be seen in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This website redirects user queries to google.com, but collects search and browsing history and sells it to third-party advertising companies. Chromesearch.win is often accompanied with extensions, that control the settings and don't allow user to revert the changes. Malware also uses Windows Group Policies to prevent user from modifying search engine and homepage.

How to remove YYTO Ransomware and decrypt .yyto, .b007, .juuj and .m5m5 files

YYTO Ransomware is new crypto-virus, that encrypt sensitive files on users computers using AES-256 cryptography. Latest version of this ransomware adds .colecyrus@mail.com.b007 suffix to the end of encrypted files. After successful encryption YYTO Ransomware places text files with instructions to pay the ransom on the desktop and in folders with affected files. Instruction files filenames are: help_to_decrypt.txt, read_to_txt_file.yyt, help.txt, encrypt.txt or Readme.txt, depending on the version of ransomware in your case. Ransom amount is between $500 and $1500.