Superfish Window Shopper
Posted: May 17, 2011
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: | 1,706 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 155,375 |
First Seen: | May 17, 2011 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Superfish Window Shopper is an potentially unwanted program or adware app that will display its own ads on Walmart, eBay, Best Buy, and other websites that PC users usually visit. These advertisements will be displayed as boxes that contain a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will show an advertisement that declares it is sent to the PC user by Superfish Window Shopper. Superfish Window Shopper is an add-on for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome that is usually installed when the computer user installs other free applications. When the computer user installs these free applications, he/she will also install Superfish Window Shopper. Some of the software products that are known to be bundled with CouponDropDown include Yontoo, FBPhotoZoom, and 1ClickDownload. Once Superfish Window Shopper is installed, it will display a 'See Similar' icon next to product images on numerous shopping websites. Superfish Window Shopper may also bring deals, coupons and/or other services on related product websites. Sometimes, by clicking on a presented offer, the PC user will be rerouted to the partner's, also known as advertiser's, website via affiliate cookies.
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:C:\Program Files (x86)\Superfish\Window Shopper\SuperfishIEAddon.dll
File name: SuperfishIEAddon.dllSize: 303.1 KB (303104 bytes)
MD5: e67519b6f8d918abea150bb3b7f5885d
Detection count: 3,469
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Superfish\Window Shopper\SuperfishIEAddon.dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 27, 2023
%APPDATA%\WindowShopper\WindowShopper.dll
File name: WindowShopper.dllSize: 104.44 KB (104448 bytes)
MD5: 644d48da730ee7c118deaa70b0a40819
Detection count: 1,597
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %APPDATA%\WindowShopper
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 23, 2016
%PROGRAMFILES%\Superfish\Window Shopper\SuperfishIEAddon.dll
File name: SuperfishIEAddon.dllSize: 303.1 KB (303104 bytes)
MD5: 19b1d992de99016f287003f58b51f8b1
Detection count: 26
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Superfish\Window Shopper
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 27, 2013
Registry Modifications
CLSID{4CCDB009-EC10-4696-9991-419D39D3D1DD}{51B4D471-086A-4137-AD28-84EED05088AE}{74F475FA-6C75-43BD-AAB9-ECDA6184F600}{7C2D1DAA-5535-4742-B248-AD8CAE93D75A}{A69A551A-1AAE-4B67-8C2E-52F8B8A19504}{E1EF512D-604D-4776-AF11-410704DA1911}File name without pathhttp_www.superfish.com_0.localstoragehttp_www.superfish.com_0.localstorage-journalhttps_www.superfish.com_0.localstoragehttps_www.superfish.com_0.localstorage-journalHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\SimilarProductsSoftware\AppDataLow\Software\superfishSoftware\AppDataLow\Software\WindowShopperSOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\SuperfishIEAddon.DLLSOFTWARE\Classes\SuperfishIEAddon.BHObjectSOFTWARE\Classes\SuperfishIEAddon.BHObject.1SOFTWARE\Classes\SuperfishIEAddon.ExtentionUISOFTWARE\Classes\SuperfishIEAddon.ExtentionUI.1SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\AppID\SuperfishIEAddon.DLLSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{74F475FA-6C75-43BD-AAB9-ECDA6184F600}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\superfish.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.superfish.comSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{74F475FA-6C75-43BD-AAB9-ECDA6184F600}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{74F475FA-6C75-43BD-AAB9-ECDA6184F600}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\AppID\SuperfishIEAddon.DLLSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{74F475FA-6C75-43BD-AAB9-ECDA6184F600}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}SimilarProductsSuperFishWindowShopper
Please remove Superfish from this computer.