Zippy Zarp

Posted: December 19, 2013

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Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	162

First Seen:	December 23, 2013
Last Seen:	March 19, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Zippy Zarp is an adware add-on that appears to have been cloned from other, similarly recent adware products in an effort to avoid being identified and removed immediately. Although Zippy Zarp isn't harmful to the same level as a Trojan or other type of threats, Zippy Zarp does inconvenience your browser with injected advertisements and other modifications that aren't advantageous to you. It should come as little surprise that malware researchers find removing Zippy Zarp to be the optimal choice for most PCs, just as they've already recommended with many closely related adware programs before Zippy Zarp. Nonetheless, appropriate security software should be used to verify the complete restoration of your browser without any long term side effects.

Singing Zippity Zarp Along Your Way Past Advertisements

The whimsically-named Zippy Zarp claims to provide better, faster results for your online searches and shopping activities, but actually has very little to back up its simple marketing proclamations. Based on the details of both its software and its website, Zippy Zarp appears to be designed by the same questionable software developers as those responsible for SolteraTop, EnhanceTronic, JoomiWeb, Market Research Helper, VeberGreat and Larparus. The actual primary functions of all of these programs are to display advertisements through your Web browser, with formats that malware experts have noted several times over:

The loading of separate browser windows for advertisements. When these windows are displayed 'on top' of your main browser window, they're referred to as pop-ups. The same window below your browser window is considered a pop-under.
Zippy Zarp also may modify Web pages within your browser as they're loaded. Modifications may include inserting text links to new advertisements, injected banners or price comparison shopping add-ons. Injected content often may harm your access to the Web page that's been modified, since they weren't formatted to include these advertisements natively.
Full-sized browser advertisements that temporarily pause your browser's loading of other sites so that the advertisement content can load. Most advertisements in these formats will allow you to proceed after a predetermined period of time.

Even though these functions aren't attacks against your computer, malware experts often see such advertisement functions being exploited to expose a PC to harmful content. Phishing attacks and drive-by-downloads are some of the most often detected PC threats circulated on online advertising networks, and may be promoted by Zippy Zarp alongside its normal content.

Zipping Up Your Zippy Zarp Troubles and Throwing Them in the Trash

There aren't many benefits to letting Zippy Zarp turn your browser into a monetized advertisement-delivering vehicle, and malware researchers find that removing adware from your PC almost always makes it safer than it would be with the adware installed. This particularly holds true for products like Zippy Zarp and its relatives, which include patterns of disreputable business practices that make it unlikely that your personal security is a concern to the affiliated company. Removing Zippy Zarp and using anti-adware or anti-malware software to do it should keep your PC both safer and more stable than tolerating its existence.

Zippy Zarp can be installed from its website, though malware experts would have to search quite a while for any good reasons to do so. Despite that access point, most PC users appear to end up with Zippy Zarp installed through non-consensual or semi-consensual methods that involve disreputable installation tactics, such as poorly-described software bundles. General software sites that have histories of distributing adware are particularly prone to using these kinds of bundles for installing Zippy Zarp.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{eeaa6cad-3d10-46b6-b1f0-ddeddc19f422}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{eeaa6cad-3d10-46b6-b1f0-ddeddc19f422}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateZippyZarp_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateZippyZarp_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilZippyZarp_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\utilZippyZarp_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\ZippyZarp_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\ZippyZarp_RASMANCS