DiscouNNtExtensi

Posted: January 13, 2014

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Ranking:	11,592
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	4,579

First Seen:	January 13, 2014
Last Seen:	October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 is a Web browser add-on that is officially categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program, which is a result of its display of questionable advertising content, its unusual format and its overall difficulty of uninstallation. In most cases, malware researchers find few benefits from adware programs, but significant browser performance issues. The DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 add-on is another case of this general trend, with a history of causing crashes. Deleting DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 with any adware-removing security software that has your trust should be enough to re-stabilize your browser and remove any advertising settings implemented by this PUP.

The Discounts that Send Your Browser Tumbling over on Itself

Adware developers often are engaged in delivering new brands of browser add-ons on an almost daily basis, but these brands rarely offer any new features or benefits worthy of mention. DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 is one of the newest adware programs off their presses, but its functions are entirely identical to those of previous adware add-ons that malware researchers have seen throughout the years. Like DigiCoupon, another adware program that was under recent investigation, DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 only has been seen being installed to Google's Chrome browser, even though other Web browsers have been harried by similar issues from other adware.

DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 stays with the classic adware functions of injecting advertisements into Web pages that aren't associated with DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2. These advertisements may include price comparisons between multiple products, referrals to alternative online retailers, coupons and sponsored search results, as some of the most notable examples. Installations of DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 also have an extra trait that malware researchers found interesting: their tendency to crash the Chrome browser randomly, which may cause even greater performance problems than most adware programs are notorious for creating.

Cutting DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2's Extended Stay on Your Browser Short

DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 advertisements ignore normal advertisement-blocking features and can't be deactivated via any controls that DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 offers you. The safest and surest way of removing this advertising content is to remove DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2, itself, which malware researchers endorse as a means of keeping your browser both safe and in a condition for good performance. DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 does have a history of concealing some of its components and trying to reinstall itself; however, an up-to-date anti-malware program with any competency should be able to remove DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 without any real problems.

DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 was noted to be active in the wild as of January 2014. Outdated PC security products may have some minor problems detecting or deleting DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2 entirely. In addition to pointing at the importance of keeping your software updated, malware researchers also might recommend that you keep your PC clear of common sources of adware that are most likely to install DiscouNNtExtensi 7.2, such as websites that bundle toolbars and other PUPs with their downloads.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscoountExtaensi\w3XGZkeZl.x64.dll

File name: w3XGZkeZl.x64.dll
Size: 474.11 KB (474112 bytes)
MD5: 7e1de5e320133c650f467e3d557d862b
Detection count: 735
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscoountExtaensi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 6, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExTensii\xe.dll

File name: xe.dll
Size: 426.49 KB (426496 bytes)
MD5: 9c9d951ea4baeecb6fa18f3eb445034b
Detection count: 73
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExTensii
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensi\nu6wW_0by.dll

File name: nu6wW_0by.dll
Size: 427.52 KB (427520 bytes)
MD5: 160ada936942ef6518d628cf95be645a
Detection count: 63
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensii\LVRkyo.dll

File name: LVRkyo.dll
Size: 427 KB (427008 bytes)
MD5: d8f01e5697607e7ee3c76527d7205679
Detection count: 21
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensii
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtEnsi\G9o.x64.dll

File name: G9o.x64.dll
Size: 474.62 KB (474624 bytes)
MD5: e30742ece34470dbbebeba0c061e89c4
Detection count: 14
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtEnsi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DisCountExteNsi\h63qNZ_4.dll

File name: h63qNZ_4.dll
Size: 424.44 KB (424448 bytes)
MD5: af8e9dcb071bee8827e5f2650826aedf
Detection count: 12
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DisCountExteNsi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiScountExtensi\cus9p80BE.dll

File name: cus9p80BE.dll
Size: 423.93 KB (423936 bytes)
MD5: ef6b8b1f25c2ffb72612966e8a39d6da
Detection count: 9
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiScountExtensi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensi\J.x64.dll

File name: J.x64.dll
Size: 474.62 KB (474624 bytes)
MD5: 2c0dd88a4f924784717e447a028af11a
Detection count: 7
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DisCountExtensi\sbN8n.x64.dll

File name: sbN8n.x64.dll
Size: 476.16 KB (476160 bytes)
MD5: 04321127380e3556a7a3993b981aab8e
Detection count: 7
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DisCountExtensi
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 16, 2014

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\DiscountExtensi%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\DiscountExtensi%PROGRAMFILES%\DiscountExtensi%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\DiscountExtensi