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Dolphin Deals

Posted: August 5, 2014

Threat Metric

Ranking: 13,405
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 2,075
First Seen: August 5, 2014
Last Seen: September 25, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Dolphin Deals is an adware program that render several annoying ads in the form of banners or pop-ups. The Dolphin Deals ads may be ones that attempt to offer various coupon deals or savings links for popular shopping sites on the internet. Use of the Dolphin Deals ads may send your web browser to other sites that have questionable content or have a way of aggressively offering other online shopping deals for saving money. The Dolphin Deals adware program and its components must be removed to stop the Dolphin Deals ads from displaying on your screen. Additionally, by removing Dolphin Deals ads and its components it will allow your web browser to perform at full speed without reducing performance due to generating the various Dolphin Deals ads when surfing the internet. Automatically eliminating Dolphin Deals may be done through utilizing an updated and trusted antispyware application.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{15a4ce1e-d288-4d04-85bf-907170010a7a}{6FC9A3B1-666D-4660-BED5-E981418A3D86}{DC7B8059-3E6D-4C2A-A806-7AE1532D23DF}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Dolphin DealsSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateDolphinDeals_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateDolphinDeals_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilDolphinDeals_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilDolphinDeals_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{15a4ce1e-d288-4d04-85bf-907170010a7a}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Dolphin DealsSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateDolphinDeals_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateDolphinDeals_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilDolphinDeals_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\utilDolphinDeals_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Util Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Util Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Util Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Util Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Util Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update Dolphin DealsSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Util Dolphin DealsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Dolphin Deals

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Dolphin Deals%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Dolphin Deals%TEMP%\Dolphin Deals
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