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DatingShot Ads

Posted: December 7, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 23
First Seen: December 7, 2015
Last Seen: January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows


The Dating Shot is not the proper solution if you want to meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend. This program is classified as adware. The Dating Shot may ruin your surfing sessions with large quantities of intrusive commercial materials. Its developers assure that the Dating Shot will help you find the best dating sites. Even if this feature were indeed present, you wouldn't need it. Brief research on any search site will show you the most popular dating platforms. In reality, however, the Dating Shot doesn't try to redirect you to such pages. The Dating Shot may display various pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads that may lead to e-commerce platforms. This performance is beneficial both for the developers of Dating Shot and the administrators of the sponsored sites. The former receive referral commissions, while the latter get a steady flow of visitors. However, you may not be on the winning side. The marketing elements exhibited by this adware may cause significant annoyance with their persistency. The coupons and offers may not appear solely when you browse the shopping platforms. Instead, you may encounter them wherever you go. Some of these ads may cover important page buttons, thus making it difficult for you to navigate through the site without clicking on them. As you probably know, multimedia ads like videos and animations may require quite some resources for their loading. As a result, the overall performance of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer may deteriorate. The most worrying issue regarding the Dating Shot is that there is no mechanism that can verify the legitimacy of the sponsored sites. Some of the ads may be threatening. They may take you to pages that may endanger the stability of your system. The presence of the Dating Shot may be a surprise to some users. If you cannot recall loading this extension, the Dating Shot probably entered together with other freeware. The experts encourage you to use a special anti-malware solution to delete this adware efficiently.

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:



DatingShot_Setup.exe File name: DatingShot_Setup.exe
Size: 1 MB (1003640 bytes)
MD5: f09bcb470afe5357a591db73d63b4bfe
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 7, 2015

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\DatingShot%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\DatingShot
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