Faster Light Ads
Posted: December 2, 2014
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: | 7,907 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 2,972 |
First Seen: | December 2, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | September 30, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Faster Light is one of those adware-related applications that are distributed in a number of ways, but mostly via bundling marketing method. Ad-supported programs like Faster Light are known to inject browsers with tons of unwanted commercial advertisements such as pop-ups, banners, inline text advertisements, offers and discounts. Faster Light is the kind of application that may modify your browsers' default search engine and homepage. It is also possible that applications with adware symptoms such as Faster Light attract more unwanted applications and threats to your system. For this reason, computer threat specialists advise users to remove Faster Light as soon as they find out that it is installed.
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:%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Faster Light\bin\utilFasterLight.exe
File name: utilFasterLight.exeSize: 406.76 KB (406768 bytes)
MD5: c0048b0ae35c754aeb0bd5f066f46a08
Detection count: 73
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Faster Light\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 17, 2015
Registry Modifications
CLSID{11137E65-ED39-44CF-9ED8-08FCFF344034}{C10BA74A-025A-4AC4-BAF3-1E8CC8C2DB1E}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\faster lightSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{950ef4df-b9dd-4b97-9e34-5c7d25a5eb88}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{DE8E32E7-CC57-4F61-B339-1A5A5010B761}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{950ef4df-b9dd-4b97-9e34-5c7d25a5eb88}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{950ef4df-b9dd-4b97-9e34-5c7d25a5eb88}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{950ef4df-b9dd-4b97-9e34-5c7d25a5eb88}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\faster lightSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{950ef4df-b9dd-4b97-9e34-5c7d25a5eb88}SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update faster lightSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Util faster lightSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update faster lightSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Util faster lightSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update faster lightSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Util faster lightSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update faster lightSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Util faster lightHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}faster light
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