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Mood Tube App

Posted: March 19, 2014

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 52
First Seen: March 24, 2014
Last Seen: May 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Mood Tube App is adware that may hijack online searches of the PC user by modifying search results with sponsored links and rerouting the computer user to suspicious websites with mainly adware-related content. Mood Tube App may insert a plug-in, browser extension or add-on for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer Web browsers when the computer user installs other freeware. When PC users install these free programs, he may also automatically install Mood Tube App on the computer systems. Once installed, Mood Tube App may hijack a Web search box on many well-known social networking or online shopping websites and replace it with its own. PC users should always pay attention when installing free tools from unreliable download websites because software installer may carry an optional install, such as Mood Tube App. PC users should be careful what free programs they agree to install. Mood Tube App may show unwanted pop-up advertisements and continuously divert computer users to suspicious websites.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\support@moodtubeapp.com

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\MoodTube%LOCALAPPDATA%\MoodTube
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