SN.Sustainer

Posted: November 6, 2014

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Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	49

First Seen:	November 6, 2014
Last Seen:	September 11, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

SN.Sustainer is an adware program that uses your Web browser as a vehicle to deliver advertising content automatically. The inescapable security implications of its functions, along with its poor business history, make SN.Sustainer a poor choice to keep on any browser, but its components may be installed in non-visible formats. Using anti-adware tools with good track records against similarly unwanted software is the recommended solution for deleting SN.Sustainer, as well as the browser changes that accompany SN.Sustainer.

A Sustainable Advertisement Ecosystem – to Your Browser's Detriment

In contrast to other, more honest adware than itself, SN.Sustainer is adware that may implement its advertising functions without bothering to install any visible elements, such as toolbars or interfaces for disabling its advertisements. Like all adware, however, SN.Sustainer modifies your Web browser to load its advertisements by default, which has the potential to expose you to potentially hazardous content automatically. Malware experts recommend paying attention to the following symptoms for SN.Sustainer, which may install itself automatically:

SN.Sustainer may modify Web pages for loading additional banners and other HTML elements that are usable for advertising purposes.
SN.Sustainer may redirect your browser, both towards interstitial advertisements and to some search sites, such as a sub-domain of omiga-plus.com. Redirects from SN.Sustainer may include changes to your homepage or search settings.

Malware experts also identified SN.Sustainer as a component of separate adware products, including Price Companion. These products may include visible components of their own, in addition to their advertisements. However, standardized methods of deleting software ordinarily may remove these visible elements without uninstalling SN.Sustainer or its advertisement-providing 'features.'

Getting to the Root of Unwanted Advertisements Sustainability

While legitimate software add-ons advertise their presence and allow their uninstallations to take place without much difficulty, SN.Sustainer uses non-consensual methods to install itself and even maintain its persistence on the system. As with any such product, particularly ones that include changes that could harm the safety of your browsing experience, malware experts can find no response more appropriate than removing SN.Sustainer immediately. Fortunately, they have yet to find any incidents of SN.Sustainer in the presence of any high-level threats that could thwart its removal by competent anti-adware products.

SN.Sustainer may install itself through bundles with desktop management utilities or other software of a supposedly benign origin. Malware experts only can confirm its compatibility with the Firefox browser. Despite that, threats all but identical to SN.Sustainer adware programs have been in distribution for years, and all popular browsers safely can be said to be equally affected by these threats.

Long term exposure to automatically-injected SN.Sustainer advertisements also may be infection vectors for the distribution of other PUPs or threats. While dealing with SN.Sustainer, you also should take the time to identify fraudulent update recommendations and other pop-ups that SN.Sustainer's advertisements may resemble superficially.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

https://feed.everygamesearch.com/?q=