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.

Downloading streaming content can be a risky enterprise. First of all, it’s illegal to convert such materials from YouTube and many other similar sites into downloadable files. Secondly, there are services that claim to do the trick but turn out to be really annoying or even harmful. YTmp3 is an example of how a solution from this category can cross the red line and cause numerous inconveniences to users instead of meeting their expectations.

The virus called Emotet has grown into a real global plague over the years. Having emerged in 2014 as banking malware targeting Windows PCs and corporate networks, it has undergone a number of overhauls in the course of the past five years to additionally distribute other opportunistic threats, brute force admin credentials, steal email passwords, and do much more damage while being incredibly hard to detect.

It’s no exaggeration to say that reliable security solutions for Mac are rare. There’s a bevy of junk tools whose behavior is actually reminiscent of malware activity that they are supposed to tackle in the first place. As opposed to these pseudo cleaners, the Freshmac application was tailored to bridge the gap between ostensible and genuine security. It detects and easily removes adware and other types of malicious code, also boosting the performance of a Mac computer it’s running on.

Ecommerce is definitely the best thing since sliced bread as it provides an ultimately convenient shopping experience where users are a few clicks away from purchasing products of choice. Whereas buying stuff this way is amazingly easy, there are services that take it up a notch. MyCouponsmart Mac app claims to facilitate the whole process, but it turns out to be a rogue entity that deluges one’s browsing routine with annoying ads.

The manifestation of Mac malware activity can vary. It can be reflected in an outright way, that is, through nag screens, popups and browser redirects. There are usually additional symptoms that some users overlook, but once you start digging deeper than the routine usage – the predicament comes to the fore. For instance, the “maftask” process name in your Activity Monitor designates that your system is infected with the Mac Auto Fixer virus.