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Adhelper

Posted: March 28, 2006

Adhelper is an adware application that downloads commercial advertisements from predefined Internet locations and regularly shows them on the compromised PC. The threat is able to secretly update itself via the Internet. Adhelper must be manually installed. It runs as a service on every Windows startup.

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesEventlogApplicationUniversalDiskManagerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesUniversalDiskManagerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesEventlogApplicationUniversalDiskManagerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesUniversalDiskManager
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