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History Boss Toolbar

Posted: March 4, 2014

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 190
First Seen: March 4, 2014
Last Seen: January 9, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows


History Boss Toolbar Screenshot 1HistoryBoss is a browser toolbar that is developed by Mindspark Inc. History Boss Toolbar may integrate itself into the Web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. HistoryBoss may claim to improve the quality of the PC user's Internet surfing by enabling him to search for a variety of historical information via the toolbar. Although History Boss Toolbar may look a legitimate app, in reality, it is categorized as adware or a potentially unwanted application. History Boss Toolbar may spread and install itself on the Web browser through bundled free software that PC users can download from suspicious download websites. When installed, History Boss Toolbar may change the default homepage and search engine with Home.tb.ask.com. History Boss Toolbar may also track the computer user's Internet browsing activity by recording information such as the IP address, Web browser type, default language settings, search queries and other hardware and software information.

History Boss Toolbar Screenshot 2History Boss Toolbar Screenshot 3

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{17444702-8138-4998-9936-A3325C3F00D8}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{6F87CE93-F461-4476-8779-8826885F93E9}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{D0397DFD-02C3-4DCD-A9D2-A5FD5CBA99E7}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\{D0397DFD-02C3-4DCD-A9D2-A5FD5CBA99E7}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{d0397dfd-02c3-4dcd-a9d2-a5fd5cba99e7}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{44e6287a-2bef-486c-9adc-fa623d270957}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{FCE2E8A4-221F-48C8-B4C7-59B27D46C7C6}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{7730a855-0a88-46f2-9a3a-51df2577219a}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{f9c0994b-a2d8-4dd1-a637-dd962bf1a5b3}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{d0397dfd-02c3-4dcd-a9d2-a5fd5cba99e7}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\mjkiconhjmakhdkoehncdeghacndfknm
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