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Adware.Sogou

Posted: August 25, 2010

Adware.Sogou is an Adware program designed to deliver various advertisements to the user's system. Adware.Sogou may come bundled with various trojans and is secretly installed onto the unsuspecting users computer. It produces pop-up and pop-under advertisements. Adware.Sogou may use malicious spyware designed to steal browser habits and login information. Adware.Sogou poses a security threat to any PC system and should be removed immediately using reliable anti-virus software.

Aliases

Program:Win32/Sogou (Microsoft)
Virus.Win32.AdWare (Ikarus)
Win-Trojan/Sohu.73728 (AhnLab)

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Sogou PXP\p2psvr.exe
    2 %ProgramFiles%\P4P\p4pipc.dll
    3 %ProgramFiles%\P4P\SoDALib.dll

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\ServiceCurrent][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServiceCurrent]
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