RelevantKnowledge Description

RelevantKnowledge is an online market research service, which conducts surveys on topics of interest to the Internet community. Any replies to these surveys are aggregated and the results help to determine the content seen when surfing the Web. RelevantKnowledge observes Internet habits by routing web-surfing activities through their service and logging information about the web pages that users visit and the actions taken there, such as purchases and transactions. While RelevantKnowledge may only be capable of monitoring the Internet behavior and activity of a certain configured computer, this is knowledge easily abused and should be considered hazardous.

Type: Adware

Automatic Detection of 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

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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