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Insurance Shine Ads

Posted: February 10, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 30
First Seen: February 10, 2016
Last Seen: January 8, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Insurance Shine is a typical adware that may insert additional ads in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The official product page assures the visitors that this software will show them attractive insurance offers. In reality, Insurance Shine shows all kinds of commercial materials to the users, which many people may not enjoy. Hardly anyone downloads this adware willingly from its official site or another platform for Web extensions. The people behind Insurance Shine prefer to spread it in software bundles together with other freeware. The main program may be a less known image viewer, music player, torrent client, etc. If the users click the 'I agree' and 'Next step' buttons without reading, they may agree to load Insurance Shine unintentionally. If it happens, you may notice changes in all of the present Web clients. Insurance Shine may set an unknown search provider as the new homepage, but you should not use it. Instead of improving your searches, this site may attempt to bring you to partner sites. Thus, you may start visiting pages that are not relevant to your search terms. There is a chance for some of them to be unsafe. The experts strongly recommend you not to install any software offered by affiliate platforms to prevent system damage, even if the offered application seems to be a legit Java update. Insurance Shine also may create new pop-ups, banners and in-text ads, replacing normal page-based commercial materials. The new ads may have unfavorable consequences for your browsers. Some ads may require quite some resources to load, which may result in annoying freezes or speed drops. To resolve the issue properly, you should scan the PC with a reliable anti-malware application.

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:



InsuranceShine_Setup.exe File name: InsuranceShine_Setup.exe
Size: 997.67 KB (997672 bytes)
MD5: d4495648d7ae283b5fe6c0d016b70df4
Detection count: 7
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022

Additional Information

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