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SlimPrice

Posted: January 19, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 52
First Seen: January 19, 2015
Last Seen: October 17, 2021
OS(es) Affected: Windows

SlimPrice is an adware-related application that is mainly distributed through a pay-per-install bundling technique. SlimPrice installs a browser extension that pretends to optimize the users' online shopping activities by providing live price comparison of online products. Another way to obtain SlimPrice is by downloading it yourself from its official website at slimprice.net. SlimPrice is one of those ad-supported extensions that claims to save money and time for their users but in reality, SlimPrice is designed to generate online traffic for third parties by redirecting users to their websites. Moreover, computer security analysts warn users that such redirects may be dangerous and attract more unwanted applications or potentially infected programs to their computers.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID\{a01209cf-9212-44b2-b76b-87e52bb9b7ca}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\SlimPrice%PROGRAMFILES%\SlimPrice%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\SlimPrice
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