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BuyAndBrowse

Posted: April 29, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 12,427
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 8,418
First Seen: April 16, 2015
Last Seen: October 2, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

BuyAndBrowse is a Possibly Unwanted Program (PUP) that offers deals and coupons to online shoppers. This could be a very useful function if the real intention of BuyAndBrowse were actually assisting users with their online shopping. Regretfully, BuyAndBrowse will only try to help its creators by generating income through the pay-per-click technique or boosting its sponsored websites traffic by adding numerous links on the computer user's search results. BuyAndBrowse may cause various problems on affected computers such as preventing computer users from viewing the Web page they wish to visit, collecting their browsing data and sending it to third parties and more.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{05B20ABD-7CCD-4DB9-B2C8-C24ACC46B35D}{16E72304-CFE9-4962-88DE-F6A4F93071C3}{5518881B-BB38-46C7-A27C-024DA02AD167}{C918CFA8-873F-497E-99F7-61C62933E188}{DA30F2A4-2AA5-4355-98CD-3B9F9305D8D3}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}{E2D23061-C457-77CB-7789-7139D13F4910}
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