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Characteristics

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Summary:

Adware-Portalscan is an adware program that connects to various portal sites. While browsing lot of pop ups appear.

Privacy :

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

Installation:

On installation some of the registry keys which get added are:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {043B5D00-92A9-4cae-A3D8-A4B4B8D52BB1}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {0894FF00-F6F5-430a-8915-2327EE763E88}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {34EF5B1C-52CB-400b-8B7C-F787018B3826}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {3E7145B1-EA07-42CE-9299-11DF39FF54BD}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {5074851C-F67A-488E-A9C9-C244573F4068}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {965A592F-8EFA-4250-8630-7960230792F1}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\DefaultSearch.SeekSeek
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
  {39341EB6-C340-4F68-AB9D-EE4917309828}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
  {96B3B1B9-A510-4603-BD66-2BB2C9F21542}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
  {E9D8697E-BEA9-4170-84F3-509AD2A11951}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
  {3CD9D85E-1FF2-4BF7-A113-6669B8D1E676}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
  {69DB5061-FF0A-418B-ADA6-68AC77D69E44}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
  {EAC42C32-1FE3-4FD0-9F27-E7F9CCF5FCD9}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASHLT
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AutoLoader
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AutoLoader\AproposClient
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ddate
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\dealhelper
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\dealhelper\KeyWord
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Jawa32
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Presentia
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\saie
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\slmss
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Vendor
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Vendor\xml
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\yp9d7pzw

Following folders are added:

• c:\Program Files\SpyWareWall
• c:\Program Files\STC
• c:\Program Files\Web_Rebates
• c:\Program Files\yp9d7pzw
• c:\WINDOWS\system32\DealHelper
• c:\WINDOWS\system32\FLEOK
• c:\WINDOWS\system32\Newmsrdk

Removal

Aliases

Aliases

• Kaspersky: AdWare.VirtualBouncer
• SOFTWIN AVXC/BDC: Application.Adware.Portalscan.C
• Symantec: Adware.SecondThought