Out of all adware strains targeting Mac computers, a relatively new lineage is currently the most rapidly swelling and prolific. Its authors are releasing fresh iterations several times a week, which is an unprecedented productivity in this niche. Although the malicious app called FormList is just one of the numerous clones regularly sprinkled into the wild, it is a stubborn threat that makes a mess of a Mac user’s web browsing and should be removed without further ado.

It seems that there is always some void to fill in the realm of web search. Better accuracy, higher speed, and greater relevance are a few common goals on the way towards perfection in this niche. There are services that claim to enhance these parameters while lacking proprietary search algorithms altogether. Landslide Search is one of these questionably useful providers bringing hardly any value to end users and relying on intrusive marketing mechanisms.

As indispensable as they are, web browsers are a weak link in computer security and get exploited big time. It might seem the reason is that people use them to visit various sites, some of which can be hacked or malicious – and that’s partially true. However, the biggest scourge is what the users download and what kind of harmful software can sneak inside the Macs this way. The QSearch virus story is just like that.

Mac users are faced with a surge of adware apps that come out of the blue and make a mess of the web browsing experience. There is a peculiar lineage of these culprits sharing a number of characteristics and resembling one another so closely that the names are pretty much the only distinguishing hallmarks. Phase Search is the latest junk spawned by this rapidly proliferating strain, featuring an app icon and behavior patterns identical to those of its numerous predecessors.

One of the biggest cyber misconceptions debunked over the past decade is about Mac computers getting no malware. Numerous outbreaks of adware, browser hijackers, scareware, and ransomware specifically going after Macs proved this illusion wrong and caused analysts to rethink how security should work in the Apple environment. MacRepair is an app that typifies a peculiar, hybrid zone of this shady landscape.

The Internet is first and foremost an inexhaustible source of data, everything else coming next on the list of benefits. No wonder the niche of web search enhancement tools is a prolific one. Many of these applications actually make it easier to find information, but others wreak havoc with user experience while pretending to be useful. The Search Pulse app for Mac is in the latter category.