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DreamAd

Posted: March 28, 2006

DreamAd is an illegal advertising application that continuously serves large amount of undesirable commercial advertisements. DreamAd can get into the computer from certain web sites. It also can be manually installed or come bundled with some ad-supported software. The spyware is able to update itself via the Internet. It silently runs on every Windows startup.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 smss.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunDebug=smss.exe
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