Brothersoft Toolbar
Posted: July 23, 2013
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 13,335 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 2,511 |
First Seen: | July 23, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | August 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Brothersoft Toolbar, also known as BrotherSoft Extreme2 B1 Toolbar, is a Conduit toolbar (Community OurToolbar) for Intenet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Brothersoft Toolbar may collect and store information about the computer user's Web browsing habits and transmit this information to Conduit so they can offer services or show unwanted advertisements via the toolbar. Brothersoft Toolbar may strive to modify the default home page and search service if the PC user is not careful during installation and provide a search box and numerous other generic features. If the default home page and search settings are changed by Brothersoft Toolbar, they need to be manually reverted back by the PC user if he decides to uninstall Brothersoft Toolbar. Brothersoft Toolbar may also automatically download and install updates without notifying the computer user.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{51A86BB3-6602-4C85-92A5-130EE4864F13}{AEE88B81-C2FB-4733-A826-88CB0A67FB61}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\BrotherSoft_ExtremeSOFTWARE\Classes\Toolbar.CT2776682Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{51A86BB3-6602-4C85-92A5-130EE4864F13}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BrotherSoft_ExtremeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{51a86bb3-6602-4c85-92a5-130ee4864f13}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}BrotherSoft Extreme ToolbarBrotherSoft_Extreme Toolbar
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