Threat Database Adware Breaking News Alert Ads

Breaking News Alert Ads

By CagedTech in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 7,555
Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 5,584
First Seen: November 18, 2014
Last Seen: September 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Breaking News Alert is a free application that claims to provide the 'latest world events' to computer users, but the real meaning of Breaking News Alert is to display advertisements. Therefore, Breaking News Alert ads is a Possibly Unwanted Program with adware functionalities that, instead of news, gives computer users unwanted advertisements. When computer users install Breaking News Alert on their computers and click on the 'news,' they will be directed to a totally strange website. On this website, they will find just advertisements. Breaking News Alert adware may use information collected from the computer user's browser routine to generate specific advertisements. When installed and running, Breaking News Alert adware may drop an auto-start Registry entry which enables Breaking News Alert to launch automatically whenever the computer user starts Windows. Breaking News Alert may become available on the affected computer after its user downloads and installs free application from a mistrustful source.

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File System Details

Breaking News Alert Ads may create the following file(s):
# File Name MD5 Detections
1. DesktopContainer.exe 5c8823a909b41efa345d4197d381b837 2,816

Registry Details

Breaking News Alert Ads may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
CLSID
{8104a4bb-ca9f-1f0b-8466-9ed71482098c}
{ed23c2b7-7455-1804-b4b8-11e49df8406d}
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\BreakingNewsAlertService_RASAPI32
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\BreakingNewsAlertService_RASMANCS

Directories

Breaking News Alert Ads may create the following directory or directories:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\BreakingNewsAlert
%LOCALAPPDATA%\BreakingNewsAlert
%PROGRAMFILES%\BreakingNewsAlert
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BreakingNewsAlert
%homedrive%\BreakingNewsAlert

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