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Astro Find Ads

Posted: October 16, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 26
First Seen: October 14, 2015
Last Seen: December 8, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Astro Find is adware, whose main purpose is to insert commercial materials in your web clients. The developer of this questionable and often unrequested web add-on is SuperWeb LLC. This suspicious application is not the first unreliable tool made by this firm. SuperWeb LLC creates tons of extensions that work in an identical manner. Usually, the name is the only difference that you may see. Just like Sail Deals, Any Angle and Common Dots, Astro Find promises a comprehensive optimization of your browsers. Some users may be tricked to install this adware expecting it to enhance their searches or improve their online shopping. If the description of this questionable add-on speaks nothing to you, but it is nevertheless installed on your PC, then it may have entered in a software bundle. SuperWeb frequently uses this tactic to spread dubious tools, so you should pay attention to the details during the setup operations. Unfortunately, Astro Find may not be of any assistance to its clients. Instead of helping you find the necessary information faster, it may trouble the process. This adware may set a low-quality search engine as your start page. This new site may display inaccurate results while trying to boost the popularity of its partners. Astro Find may generate various pop-ups, banners, videos and in-text ads. Sometimes you may even face interstitial ads on top of the pages you want to view. These commercial materials may be responsible for potential performance issues with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. What you may experience are occasional freezes and crashes due to the multimedia elements. Since there is a chance for some of the ads to lead to unsafe locations, you should stay away from all sponsored links. The best action you can undertake is an in-depth scan with reputable security software to delete Astro Find.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Astro Find

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Astro Find
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