PUP.FourFinders
Posted: March 18, 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.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 173 |
First Seen: | March 18, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | March 30, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
PUP.FourFinders is a potentially unwanted program/adware that may attack Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome and other well-known Web browsers. PUP.FourFinders may show disturbing pop-up advertisements while the Web browser is operating. The main purpose of PUP.FourFinders may be to market a variety of suspicious websites that might have been made for commercial intentions that is to market numerous services and deals which, in truth, are intrusive and may interfere with the PC user's online activity. PUP.FourFinders may unwillingly divert the computer user to questionable websites if he clicks on the pop-up advertisements shown by PUP.FourFinders. PUP.FourFinders may also replace the default start page and search engine or a new tab page with a tricky website. PUP.FourFinders may reduce the PC's performance. PUP.FourFinders may trace the computer user's surfing routine and record his surfing history which may then be transferred and used for the aim of showing targeted advertisements and messages.
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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:%TEMP%\fourfinders_di.exe
File name: fourfinders_di.exeSize: 233.09 KB (233096 bytes)
MD5: 6927ae733288b4a806191da4a2058ba0
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022
Registry Modifications
CLSID{c5d16229-03ba-453f-949b-cd0dd970fb0e}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FourFinders_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\FourFinders_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateFourFinders_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateFourFinders_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update Four FindersSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\Application\Update Four FindersSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update Four Finders
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