Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Distributed Computing Experiment - dce.exe - What is it?

Found something called "Distributed Computing Experiment" while testing out some downloads. It appears as dce.exe in the Windows Task Manager. I haven't figured out what it does yet. None of the scanners at VirusTotal detected it.




Sunday, December 22, 2013

How To Remove ZenSearch

How To Remove ZenSearch:


PriceGong pop-up ad

If you see these popups labeled "PriceGong" you have the PriceGong adware installed on your machine:



nationzoom Browser Protecter

Found the "nationzoom Browser Protecter" while testing some free downloads:

nationzoom Browser Protecter

Facebook Security Warning - Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone

Got lots of these warning when testing some bundled software. And then SingleZenSearch.exe crashed :)




Brought by SaveSense Coupons - How To Remove

Found some ads and coupons labeled Brought by SaveSense today. Here's a bunch of screenshots.

Brought by SaveSense Coupons Ad





You can remove SaveSense from the Add/Remove programs dialog.

SaveSense in the Add/Remove Programs dialog.









Or if you want to remove SaveSense with FreeFixer here are the files to select for removal:
SaveSenseIE.dll

SaveSense SaveSenseLive.exe

Ads by Better Deals

Ads labeled "by Better Deals" while browsing the web:

ads by Better Deals