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Unfriend Check

Posted: July 12, 2013

Threat Metric

Ranking: 9,613
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 5,054
First Seen: July 12, 2013
Last Seen: October 7, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Unfriend Check is an adware application, which advertises itself as a tool being able to enhance PC users' Facebook accounts; however, once installed on an affected PC, Unfriend Check will display unwanted pop-up advertisements and sponsored links on the websites that web users are visiting. Unfriend Check is produced by cybercrooks with the only goal to earn money from increased website traffic and the pay-per-click technique. Unfriend Check generates web traffic and gathers sales leads for other suspicious advertising websites. Unfriend Check is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is usually inserted when web users install other free programs, such as PDF creators, download-managers or video recording/streaming, that had packed into their installation Unfriend Check. When PC users install these free software products, they will also install Unfriend Check. While being installed, whenever the computer user will visit Facebook, Amazon, Youtube or any other similar websites, Unfriend Check will display a 'See Similar' button on product images, which when clicked will display pop-up ads by Unfriend Check.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}3f3ac151cbbd2107

Additional Information

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