Adware.Sogou
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| Ranking: | 2,219 |
| Threat Level: | 80 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 31,428 |
| First Seen: | November 20, 2015 |
| Last Seen: | September 19, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Adware.Sogou is a potentially unwanted advertising program. Adware.Sogou can be surreptitiously installed onto a machine and it often comes bundled with malware such as Trojans. Adware.Sogou is able to modify the Internet Explorer home page or and search page to display advertisements in the form of pop-ups, banners or links.
Table of Contents
Aliases
3 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| - | Win-Trojan/Sohu.73728 |
| - | Virus.Win32.AdWare |
| - | Program:Win32/Sogou |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Adware.Sogou
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | tools_update.exe | 31e3e8785182deb239a9db6cccc56265 | 14,022 |
| 2. | bdupdate.exe | 7ae337e567cd3a90427ac262fbba78f2 | 1,336 |
| 3. | tools_update.exe | 6acd0f18a9ba4215a45844a0d4648a1e | 505 |
| 4. | bdupdate.exe | a64f4d0d842a29dc3b16c4dc7c04c9fc | 315 |
| 5. | bdupdate.exe | 80495e20eb4b224df17ef30430ac7284 | 218 |
| 6. | bdupdate.exe | 2d7f464c6d63c466d7589a686b5e00b8 | 183 |
| 7. | bdupdate.exe | c9cc4eb7e3b82821c45c50a4528f4785 | 152 |
| 8. | bdupdate.exe | d862c58ed89c0c407f1f7d4ad6285ac3 | 81 |
| 9. | bdupdate.exe | 8341eb6c4c4bd016989b2a06cccc93e4 | 61 |
| 10. | bdupdate.exe | 99cda158f24fdaecd4c78003a11195a5 | 54 |
| 11. | bdupdate.exe | 2c261243669ee7056a5e8ab467dd9739 | 51 |
| 12. | tools_update.exe | b18a0019f427178286ae667dbc350469 | 9 |
| 13. | tools_update.exe | 2a4d919c717b8dbbbc1a87d3c0939372 | 5 |
| 14. | %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Sogou PXP\p2psvr.exe | ||
| 15. | %ProgramFiles%\P4P\p4pipc.dll | ||
| 16. | %ProgramFiles%\P4P\SoDALib.dll |
Registry Details
Directories
Adware.Sogou may create the following directory or directories:
| %PROGRAMFILES%\tools\update |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\tools\update |
