FWN Toolbar Description

FWN Toolbar is a browser hijacker that detects when the user performs a search in a popular Internet search engine Google and sends a web browser to a predetermined web site instead of showing Google search results. FWN Toolbar records all entered search keywords and addresses of visited web sites and sends gathered data to its home server. The spyware runs on every Windows startup.

Type: Toolbar

How Can You Detect FWN Toolbar?

FWN Toolbar has typically the following processes in memory:

• fwntoolbar.dll

FWN Toolbar creates the following registry entries:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shell extensions\approved\{26398112-f068-4273-964b-a1d8bcf3e576}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\internet explorer\toolbar\{26398112-f068-4273-964b-a1d8bcf3e576}

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