SmartShopper
Posted: June 20, 2006
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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.
Ranking: | 8,959 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 3,569 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | September 24, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SmartShopper is an IE browser helper object that often comes bundled with SearchEnhancer and other ISTBar family variants. Once installed, SmartShopper will monitor your web searches and display adverts relative to terms that you have typed into your web browser.
Aliases
Adware/Agent [Fortinet]AdWare.Win32.ShopperReports [Ikarus]AdWare/Win32.Agent.gen [Antiy-AVL]ShopperReports [Sophos]SmartShopper [McAfee-GW-Edition]Adware/ShopperReports.A.19 [AntiVir]Adware.Siggen.13604 [DrWeb]not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent.uxc [Kaspersky]Adware.Shoper [ClamAV]Trojan.Gen.2 [Symantec]Adware [K7AntiVirus]
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:smartshopper[1].exe
File name: smartshopper[1].exeSize: 712.28 KB (712288 bytes)
MD5: 81cef2dcb9b9931d3a54d4170a59b78b
Detection count: 95
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
%PROGRAMFILES%\Smart-Shopper2\Bin\2.7.27\Smrt-Shpr.dll
File name: Smrt-Shpr.dllSize: 1.45 MB (1451392 bytes)
MD5: 9ff990dc02678c1301ee8d9604061199
Detection count: 93
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Smart-Shopper2\Bin\2.7.27
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 9, 2014
SmartShopper0.dll
File name: SmartShopper0.dllSize: 413.69 KB (413696 bytes)
MD5: 47aa624ed35ee0c842a82faaf436b185
Detection count: 72
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
ShprInstaller.exe
File name: ShprInstaller.exeSize: 715.29 KB (715296 bytes)
MD5: 840c52c0e30872ee5af9fe29bd04f883
Detection count: 50
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
Registry Modifications
The following newly produced Registry Values are:
File name without pathSmartShopper - Comapre product prices.lnkSmartShopper - Compare travel rate.lnkSmartShopper Help.lnkUninstall SmartShopper.lnkHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{9BD56158-44D3-4C57-A4A3-3FBE94F19842}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{BBA3D1B0-02C0-4625-93EC-27FB1EA98079}
File name without pathSmartShopper - Comapre product prices.lnkSmartShopper - Compare travel rate.lnkSmartShopper Help.lnkUninstall SmartShopper.lnkHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{9BD56158-44D3-4C57-A4A3-3FBE94F19842}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{BBA3D1B0-02C0-4625-93EC-27FB1EA98079}
Additional Information
The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\SmartShopper%PROGRAMFILES%\Smart-Shopper2%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Smart-Shopper2%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\SmartShopper%ProgramFiles%\SmartShopper%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Smart-Shopper2
The following cookies were detected:
smartshopper
how do I get this crapp off my P/C I am tired smartshopper I just what it to go away
It is very easy to remove Smartshopper by going to Control Panel, Add-Remove programs, and remove it.
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I tried all the usual ways to get rid of SmartShopper - add/remove/uninstall programs, editing the registry etc. All was to no avail - because my computer just couldn't find any files relating to SmartShopper. I only had the problem when using Google Chrome (and i have no idea where i picked up SmartShopper from!!). So I even tried uninstalling and re-installing Chrome - but this didn't work either. SmartShopper was back!
However if you go into Chrome Advanced Settings; there's an option right at the bottom <reset browser settings>. Hitting that got rid of SmartShopper for me! 🙂
When you select this option the following Chrome dialogue box comes up: "Your browser settings will be restored to their original defaults. This will reset your homepage, new tab page and search engine, disable your extensions and unpin all tabs. It will also clear other temporary and cached data, such as cookies, content and site data."
So basically you'll need to re-set any homepages, re-enable extensions and possibly themes etc. You'll also have to re-enter passwords the first time you log in to sites that Chrome previously remembered for you. You'll still have all your bookmarks etc. So it's really not too much hassle!
SmartShopper is such an annoying nightmare!! But this fix worked for me - hopefully it will work for others too. Of course for all i know there may still be some aspects of the SmartShopper malware still lurking on my machine - but this got rid of the popups and audio clips - and I'll soon to a complete re-format (long overdue anyway) just to be sure.
I hope this helps others - because this malware really is bloody annoying!!!