RelevantKnowledge Description

RelevantKnowledge is an online market research service that conducts surveys on topics of interest to the Internet community. Responses to these surveys are aggregated and the results help determine the content you see when you surf. RelevantKnowledge monitors your Internet surfing, by routing your Internet activities through their service and logging information about the web pages that you visit and the actions that you take, such as the purchases and transactions you make. RelevantKnowledge can only monitor the Internet behavior and activity of your configured computers.

Generally, RelevantKnowledge is not dangerous in nature. RelevantKnowledge may even be helpful since it allows websites to store user preferences (login credentials, personalize web pages, etc.). Yet RelevantKnowledge can be used for malicious purposes. In the wrong hands, RelevantKnowledge can be harmful and turn into a security issue when it’s used to steal your personal information. So it’s up to you if you want your surfing habits or sensitive information to be shared across multiple domains or sold to third-parties for malicious purposes. RelevantKnowledge can be removed from the system by using a reliable anti-spyware program.

Type: Spyware

How Can You Detect RelevantKnowledge?

RelevantKnowledge Technical Report

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

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

RelevantKnowledge has typically the following processes in memory:

• rlvknlg.exe
• relevantknowledge.exe
• rk.exe
• rlservice.exe

RelevantKnowledge created the following directories, files, paths:

• %ProgramFiles%\relevantknowledge

RelevantKnowledge creates the following registry entries:

• MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\WINLOGON\NOTIFY\RelevantKnowledge

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