Useful Program

Posted: February 9, 2015

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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.

Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	80

First Seen:	February 9, 2015
Last Seen:	October 15, 2019
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Useful Program has proven not to be so helpful in that it is prone to displaying random advertisements as pop-ups, banners or even pop-unders. The Useful Program application may have several components and files associated with it that load on your computer. Usually, through the download and installation of random freeware, Useful Program files are able to populate your web browser settings and then allow advertisements to be displayed and lead to unwanted sites redirects while you are surfing the internet. Additionally, web browsers may suffer from reduced performance due to Useful Program being loaded and rendering random advertisements. Stopping the actions of Useful Program may be a process that requires complete removal of Useful Program and its files or web browser add-on components.

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:

C:\Program Files\Useful Program\UsefulProgramuninstall.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\Useful Program\UsefulProgramuninstall.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\Useful Program\UsefulProgrambho.dll

File name: C:\Program Files\Useful Program\UsefulProgrambho.dll
MD5: 8f9c2bc320d549c03adcc23e40f7809d
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

updateUsefulProgram.exe

File name: updateUsefulProgram.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{6cef19ff-dc0c-49fb-bfca-8122b2bc5b29}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Useful Program%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Useful Program

The following URL's were detected:

usefulprogram.comusefulprogram.com/support