Adware.Generic.A Description

Adware.Generic.A is a dangerous adware infection that is able to display fake adverts that lead to the installation of other malware. Adware.Generic.A can load at startup from malicious registry entries that it has populated the windows registry with. Adware.Generic.A is usually installed without your knowledge through a security hole or browser exploit.

Type: Spyware

How Can You Detect Adware.Generic.A?

Adware.Generic.A Technical Report

As new Adware.Generic.A details are reported by our customers and findings from our Threat Research Center, we will update this section.

The following Adware.Generic.A files with its MD5s were created in the system:

Adware.Generic.A has typically the following processes in memory:

• rgvjgak.dll
• kcjsgqnrtj.dll
• addhi.dll
• z872wzquxr.dll

Adware.Generic.A creates the following registry entries:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{85779E32-00A0-C448-F51E-18D8A8668500}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{CE7C3CF0-4B15-11D1-0BED-709549C10020}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRUNSecurityUpdate
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerBrowser Helper Objects{4132589D-BFA0-677D-4A6D-86104258C74F}

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