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Forbes

Posted: March 28, 2006

Forbes is an Adware infection. Forbes may use certain techniques to hide itself in your system memory where it performs malicious activities. Forbes or the Forbes Adware application, is known to display advertisements or popups under ads giving out links to potentially malicious sites. Forbes could slow your system to a crawl making it difficult to perform day-to-day activities so it is very important to detect and remove Forbes with a reliable anti-spyware program.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 forbes.com business news alerts.lnk
    2 forbesalerts.exe
    3 forbes~1.exe
    4 forbes~2.exe
    5 forbes~3.exe
    6 forbes~4.exe
    7 Program Files\Common Files\forbes.com business news alerts
    8 Program Files\forbes
    9 stopalertsprogram.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\forbesHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{ee2589eb-7fc8-44db-a892-573f2c4b41e0}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{ee2589eb-7fc8-44db-a892-573f2c4b41e0}

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