Home Malware Programs Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) Notifier PLUS

Notifier PLUS

Posted: June 1, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 75
First Seen: May 27, 2015
Last Seen: January 19, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Notifier Plus is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that is ad-supported, controversial to how it is marketed. Notifier Plus claims to provide users with free of charge computer-related technical support services. At first glance, Notifier Plus may seem like a useful tool, but in reality, Notifier Plus exhibits adware capabilities. Users may acquire unwanted applications such as Notifier Plus easily as adware developers utilize questionable delivery methods such as bundling adware and PUPs with other free software. Once you install Notifier Plus, regardless if users did it intentionally or accidentally, this unwanted software would start collecting personal but non-identifiable information that is gathered mainly from your browsing history. Once Notifier Plus has collected relevant information, users may notice an abundance of annoying advertising materials in their web browser that are not related to the underlying web page. Ads by Notifier Plus are displayed consistently and are known to consume a lot of CPU. Consequently, users may observe that their computer has become rather sluggish. Computer security experts do not advise users to click on ads by Notifier Plus and also advise to remove it from the system using a legitimate anti-malware tool.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\Notifier PLUS.jobSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\Notifier PLUS.job.fpSoftware\Notifier PLUS Service

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Notifier PLUS%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Notifier PLUS
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