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Adware.Purityscan

Posted: December 8, 2009

Adware.Purityscan is a malicious adware application which connects to the Internet before spewing large amounts of annoying pop-up advertisements on you PC. These ads will match your browsing habits and they will try to scare you into purchasing a useless rogue anti-spyware kit. Adware.Purityscan also has the ability to mutate, making manual removal extremely difficult. Once detected, Adware.Purityscan should be terminated using a reliable anti-spyware product.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %Temp%\1.tmp\b2e.exe
    2 %Temp%\2.tmp\batfile.bat
    3 %Temp%\3.tmp\batfile.bat
    4 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Adware.PurityScan.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Adware.PurityScan"[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

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