TasticSurf
Posted: March 25, 2014
Threat Metric
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.
Ranking: | 17,032 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,539 |
First Seen: | March 25, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 8, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
TasticSurf is known to be adware that may proliferate and install itself onto computers with the help of various freeware. TasticSurf may be added as an extra download to the free program the computer user is downloading. Once installed on the computer system, TasticSurf may embed the related toolbar and modify the default homepage and search engine or a new tab window with a questionable website which may encompass commercial advertising content. TasticSurf may display annoying pop-up advertisements carrying deals, offers and sponsored links in search results of any legitimate search engine. TasticSurf may also gather search phrases from the PC user's search requests to possibly deliver and show targeted pop-up ads that may probably be used to earn money from ad clicks. The pop-up advertisements of TasticSurf may declare to be delivered to the PC user by TasticSurf Deals or TasticSurf Ads. TasticSurfmay also use browser hijacking methods to unwillingly reroute computer users to a predefined suspicious website and, thus, boost traffic of the unwanted website.
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:%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b\maintainer.exe
File name: maintainer.exeSize: 123.68 KB (123680 bytes)
MD5: 0ff9b05572b1d257734ab1fe15a725cb
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 11, 2014
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b\maintainer.exe
File name: maintainer.exeSize: 123.68 KB (123680 bytes)
MD5: af76677cdf4ca61074d9abcc0ab43e22
Detection count: 8
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 11, 2014
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b\maintainer.exe
File name: maintainer.exeSize: 123.68 KB (123680 bytes)
MD5: a9e163f5348b3e83392514abf709ff33
Detection count: 6
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\d2446020-ddff-402b-b064-199d2ce66b2b
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 11, 2014
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{39a59b49-2085-4b42-b2bd-bbcab8cdaa45}
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