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EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecard
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are assessment reports for different malware threats which have been collected and analyzed by our research team. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards evaluate and rank threats using several metrics including real-world and potential risk factors, trends, frequency, prevalence, and persistence. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are updated regularly based on our research data and metrics and are useful for a wide range of computer users, from end users seeking solutions to remove malware from their systems to security experts analyzing threats.
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Ranking: The ranking of a particular threat in EnigmaSoft’s Threat Database.
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Infected Computers: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
See also Threat Assessment Criteria.
| Ranking: | 13,099 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 3,108 |
| First Seen: | October 10, 2015 |
| Last Seen: | May 2, 2024 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The FavGenius application is advertised on FavGenius.com as a start page optimizer and bookmarks manager that users may want to install to improve their Internet browsing experience. The FavGenius application may be found accompanying freeware packages and users may install it with the 'Express' or 'Typical' option unintentionally. The FavGenius application may allow users to save copies of web pages to review them later, and it may seem useful, but it is adware that may cover your screen with ads. The FavGenius adware may alter the behavior of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox to make sure that users are presented with advertisements. The FavGenius adware might use modified CRX, XPI and BHO files to execute its operations on your PC and inject ads on the pages you visit on the Internet. The FavGenius adware may show banners, inline ads and floating ad-boxes on every page you load in your Internet client. Moreover, the FavGenius adware might use tracking cookies and send data like your browsing history to advertisers to receive instructions on what type of ads it should display on your screen. The FavGenius adware is similar to Alpha Shopper and FilmzHub and may run as a background service in your Windows Task Manager to read the Meta tags of pages you visit and load related ads. The FilmzHub adware may use pop-up and pop-under windows to promote third-party applications like App Loader and UnfriendTool that may slow down your computer. The FavGenius adware is known to install its files in the hidden AppData folder to evade security scans, and you need to use a specialized anti-spyware solution to remove its components.
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SpyHunter Detects & Remove FavGenius Ads
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. | ext_favgenius.dll | ab64a8d19fed109b34c6e0b63b2fc270 | 835 |
| 2. | ext_favgenius.dll | 0e8de84b8fddeae5a7e87f4be9928822 | 479 |
| 3. | ext_favgenius.dll | 383907fab3d1f6911d7b45cb70f62bfe | 215 |
| 4. | ext_favgenius.dll | 89762de69783272035dd28f4b5074481 | 1 |
Registry Details
Directories
FavGenius Ads may create the following directory or directories:
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\ext_favgenius |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\FavGenius |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\ext_favgenius |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\FavGenius |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\ext_favgenius |
URLs
FavGenius Ads may call the following URLs:
| favgenius.com |
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