ALOT Toolbar Description

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ALOT Toolbar is a malevolent Trojan that embeds itself into your web browser as a Browser Helper Object (BHO). Once executed, ALOT Toolbar will create a search bar in Internet Explorer and redirect your browser to dangerous websites that promote and sell bogus anti-spyware programs. ALOT Toolbar will also attack your desktop with large amounts of extremely intrusive pop-up commercials. Immediate removal of ALOT Toolbar is strongly recommended, since it may not only interfere with your work flow, but also conduce to violation of your privacy and security.

ALOT Toolbar was created by a company that markets it as a search engine toolbar. Web search results are apt to being hijacked where the user may be lead to other unwanted and potential malicious sites.

ALOT Toolbar is also known to change web browser settings where the default homepage is modified. ALOT Toolbar ultimately limits users from utilizing certain web browsers as they normally would and it is recommended to be removed.

Type: Trojans

How Can You Detect ALOT Toolbar?

ALOT Toolbar Technical Report

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

The following ALOT Toolbar files with its MD5s were created in the system:

ALOT Toolbar Removal Details

ALOT Toolbar created the following directories, files, paths:

• %ProgramFiles%\alot

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