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Characteristics

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Summary:

This is not a virus or Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. It adds an internet explorer toolbar with a search bar and links to various commercial websites. The users can refer the URL “hithopper.com”.

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:

File name: hithopperinstaller.exe
MD5Hash : 06e0cbcb9ae574ede968a817db1cc8ae

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

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HitHopper
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HitHopper\Toolbar
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {3717DF55-0396-463d-98B7-647C7DC6898A}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
  {7B9A715E-9D87-4C21-BF9E-F914F2FA953F}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Pugi.PugiObj
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
  {AAC591BC-D59E-4649-8965-120012A321FB}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Uninstall\HitHopper
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WebstormMedia
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WebstormMedia\
  HitHopper

Following folder gets added on installation :

• c:\HitHopper

Removal

Aliases

Aliases

• Symantec: Adware-hithopper