Innovate Direct Ads
Posted: February 29, 2016
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
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: | 11,025 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 2,820 |
First Seen: | February 29, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | September 29, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Innovate Direct is a Web extension that promises to increase the quality of your surfing sessions by optimizing your settings and offering a range of useful features. In reality, this unreliable add-on may achieve exactly the opposite and leave the majority of PC users unhappy. Innovate Direct is adware that is created and distributed by the infamous company SuperWeb LLC. This software developer may spread its tools, not as stand-alone applications but concealed in software bundles, where the main program may be some legit freeware. Unless you perform the installation via the more detailed 'Advanced' method, you may understand that there are additional components towards the core software when it is already too late. Innovate Direct may show you various commercial materials in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may encounter some persistent pop-ups, banners or animations during each of your surfing sessions. The new ads may offer you some discount coupons or exclusive offers. Although SuperWeb LLC assures that these deals will improve your online shopping, the marketing elements may not be of any help to you. They may redirect you to shady parts of the Internet, some of which may be threatening. You may land on platforms that spread potentially threatening software disguised as Java or Adobe updates accidentally. Some sites may display fake security warnings to make you dial con artists who introduce themselves as technical support agents. Even if the cookie-based ads lead you to unknown shopping sites, you cannot be sure whether they are legit or not. A particularly unpleasant aspect of Innovate Direct is that it may deteriorate the performance of your browsers. After the installation of the adware, you may start experiencing annoying freezes or significant speed drops as the Web client may be using some of the available resources for the loading of multimedia ads. Although the installation of Innovate Direct happens in just a few seconds, your attempts to remove it manually may be accompanied by many errors. The most reliable method to delete this adware is to use a dedicated security product.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{16879EC5-9228-448E-89C2-84B8A31A8E06}{194B8204-3EAE-47E4-8DAF-1852E7A82638}{33E0A650-02D2-473B-B950-355B096215C5}{4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577}{9b94dd1e-f92e-470b-b098-7dfa23b44cf9}{D52892BB-8200-4388-B59A-F1FE38A6EB4F}File name without pathinnovatedirect-a.akamaihd[1].xmlHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\InnovateDirectSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{4944AFFB-E1C2-4FFB-A3C7-E424EA82E577}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{9B94DD1E-F92E-470B-B098-7DFA23B44CF9}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\innovatedirect-a.akamaihd.netSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\innovatedirect-a.akamaihd.netSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{4944AFFB-E1C2-4FFB-A3C7-E424EA82E577}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{4944AFFB-E1C2-4FFB-A3C7-E424EA82E577}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\InnovateDirectSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{4944affb-e1c2-4ffb-a3c7-e424ea82e577}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Service Mgr InnovateDirectSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update Mgr InnovateDirectSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Service Mgr InnovateDirectSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update Mgr InnovateDirectSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Service Mgr InnovateDirectSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update Mgr InnovateDirectHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Innovate Direct
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