ALOT Toolbar
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| Ranking: | 5,860 |
| Threat Level: | 10 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 4,234 |
| First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
| Last Seen: | December 28, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
ALOT Toolbar Image
ALOT Toolbar is a malevolent Trojan that embeds itself into your web browser as a Browser Helper Object (BHO). Once executed, ALOT Toolbar will create a search bar in Internet Explorer and redirect your browser to dangerous websites that promote and sell bogus anti-spyware programs. ALOT Toolbar will also attack your desktop with large amounts of extremely intrusive pop-up commercials. Immediate removal of ALOT Toolbar is strongly recommended, since it may not only interfere with your work flow, but also conduce to violation of your privacy and security.
ALOT Toolbar was created by a company that markets it as a search engine toolbar. Web search results are apt to being hijacked where the user may be lead to other unwanted and potential malicious sites.
ALOT Toolbar is also known to change web browser settings where the default homepage is modified. ALOT Toolbar ultimately limits users from utilizing certain web browsers as they normally would and it is recommended to be removed.
Table of Contents
Aliases
1 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| Sophos | Alot Toolbar |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove ALOT Toolbar
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. | alot.dll | 0cbd99c9d64cbd7b5b6d7c67e4a9ebbd | 226 |
| 2. | alotBHO.dll | e2f8e9e2afb591d4cdc5b0d7186677e8 | 23 |
| 3. | alotBHO.dll | 46722e2becff3bd427bbb7ee7852b234 | 22 |
| 4. | alotUninst.exe | c9a76e41c7ba9e0f62f9f3f42d84c597 | 0 |
| 5. | alot.dll | d93bece7f94849c3395f7b291b97f227 | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
ALOT Toolbar may create the following directory or directories:
| %ProgramFiles%\alot |
| %ProgramFiles%\alotappbar |
| %UserProfile%\AppData\LocalLow\alotappbar |
| %UserProfile%\AppData\LocalLow\alotservice |
URLs
ALOT Toolbar may call the following URLs:
| https://alothome.com/search?stype= |
