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Adware.Superbar

Posted: February 2, 2010

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 28
First Seen: July 24, 2009
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Adware.Superbar is an adware program that displays annoying banner adverts and has the ability to steal personal user information to send to hackers. Adware.Superbar uses shareware and freeware programs to spread and will monitor the user's Internet activity to display advertisement banners and popups in the infected machine. Do not give Adware.Superbar any leeway to do its devious dirty work and have this cyber pest removed immediately.

Aliases

Adware.Superbar [Symantec]Gigatech Superbar [Sunbelt]Superbar [Sophos]Generic.Malware [Prevx1]Adware/Superbar [Panda]Adware:Win32/Superbar [Microsoft]potentially unwanted program Adware-SuperBar [McAfee]not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.GigatechSuperBar [Ikarus]Adware/GigatechSuperBar [Fortinet]W32/Adware.CLW [F-Prot]Adware.GigatechSuperBar [eWido]Adware.Gator [DrWeb]AdWare.GigatechSuperBar (Not a Virus) [CAT-QuickHeal]Application.Gigatech.Superbar.A [BitDefender]Adware Generic.RVI [AVG]
More aliases (21)

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:



SUPERBAR.dll File name: SUPERBAR.dll
Size: 237.56 KB (237568 bytes)
MD5: 148ee18d95ffd0eb52e1f89cfbe3266c
Detection count: 22
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
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