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Flexible Family Ads

Posted: February 9, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 12
First Seen: February 9, 2016
Last Seen: January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Flexible Family is an unreliable application that may create various unwanted commercial materials in your browsers. Flexible Family may attach towards Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer in the shape of an extension. In theory, this software should provide practical advice to young parents about the upbringing and education of their child. In reality, the notifications that Flexible Family shows are not just helpful tips. As typical adware, Flexible Family may display many deals, exclusive offers and special discounts. Unfortunately, most of them may take you to suspicious and unknown shopping sites. Trusting them with your money may not be a very wise idea. The ads may be pop-ups and banners primarily, but you also may encounter in-text ads, transitional and interstitial ads. They may occupy a substantial area on the sidebars of your screen. A lot of PC users may find them annoying, especially when they notice the same ads on almost every page. Flexible Family may become a burden to your system because it may seize a lot of resources for its processes. As a result, your Web clients may become sluggish, and your surfing sessions may be interrupted by freezes and crashes occasionally. Clicking on the ads by Flexible Family is not recommended. Nothing can verify that all sites in the extensive partner network are safe. Some may display misleading security pop-ups to make you think you are infected. Others may claim you have won the lottery to make you share your email address, which may be used in spam campaigns. Some affiliated sites may even offer you fake Java or Adobe updates. If you didn't download the adware voluntarily, Flexible Family might have compromised your browsers after the installation of some software bundle. You should use an updated anti-malware solution to delete Flexible Family and revert the changes that Flexible Family may have caused to your browser.

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:



FlexibleFamily_Setup.exe File name: FlexibleFamily_Setup.exe
Size: 997.67 KB (997672 bytes)
MD5: 41ef7c29bb677ad9a044f3428f870fb3
Detection count: 62
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 9, 2016

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\FlexibleFamily
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