HowToSimplified Toolbar

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 799
Threat Level: 10 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 78,671
First Seen: September 26, 2014
Last Seen: September 21, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The HowToSimplified Toolbar comes from a company named Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. that released the Action Classic Games and SuddenlyMusic toolbars. The HowToSimplified Toolbar is supposed to give you access to 'Do It Yourself' tutorials on the Internet and help you discover home improvement tips and recipe ideas. HowToSimplified may provide you with how-to information. Security experts recognize the HowToSimplified Toolbar as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may provide useful information from sources like Greatist.com and Diynetwork.com.

You should know that the HowToSimplified Toolbar may change your new tab page and homepage. Security experts note that the HowToSimplified Toolbar does not use encrypted communications to ensure your privacy, and many of you may not like that. PC users that prefer to surf the Internet via an HTTPS connection may wish to use a reliable anti-spyware tool to remove the HowToSimplified Toolbar from their machine.

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Registry Details

HowToSimplified Toolbar may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
CLSID
{03c753cc-6d45-44f4-977e-fb98306f2344}
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{18fb645a-ed66-48e2-a636-34baadd8f001}
{1E9D0E95-98DD-44FE-AC76-AC47387AB9A7}
{27a0e05a-63d6-430a-bcae-38cabebebc54}
{34E908BE-A446-4651-9115-3FB3D25C5897}
{37CA2088-E597-4889-94A4-92151E3CA16D}
{398D4952-7022-43D0-868F-CF1058FD8F15}
{4b0bfaa8-8e57-4cc4-87f4-a4bdf927b17c}
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{5E410959-596E-4E21-905B-ADD87E0414F4}
{5EE554BC-4494-41DB-BA0B-70B483B24BCF}
{5fdeb94c-c7bf-4da6-93ea-2f03a243fa10}
{6023CA7B-EAF3-46A7-886B-DFDFA63950BE}
{61673209-76a0-4a62-ab12-014ce1a1b00e}
{673287BF-33A6-4F6F-BADA-773C946262AA}
{67DCCED2-0E72-46FA-B9A7-D1A20A702ABC}
{68ED2974-ECDA-46DA-B5C8-0DBCDE795731}
{6EA5A92A-63B1-4CD6-87D6-B6F1719C0B78}
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{9A4336E9-0BD2-4A16-BA56-3B9018CB42C3}
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File name without path
download.howtosimplified[1].xml
howtosimplified.dl.myway[1].xml
howtosimplified.dl.tb.ask[1].xml
http_howtosimplified.dl.myway.com_0.localstorage
http_howtosimplified.dl.myway.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_howtosimplified.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstorage
http_howtosimplified.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstorage-journal
http_www.howtosimplified.com_0.localstorage
http_www.howtosimplified.com_0.localstorage-journal
Software\HowToSimplified
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\download.howtosimplified.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\howtosimplified.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\howtosimplified.dl.myway.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\howtosimplified.dl.tb.ask.com
Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\{E0C22E6B-A7BD-43F6-B5CC-020E06D11A45}
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified AppIntegrator 32-bit
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified AppIntegrator 64-bit
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified EPM Support
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified Search Scope Monitor
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified AppIntegrator 32-bit
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified AppIntegrator 64-bit
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified EPM Support
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\HowToSimplified Search Scope Monitor
SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\HowToSimplified_8eService
SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\HowToSimplified_8eService
SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\HowToSimplified_8eService
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HowToSimplified_8ebar Uninstall Internet Explorer
HowToSimplifiedTooltab Uninstall Internet Explorer

Directories

HowToSimplified Toolbar may create the following directory or directories:

%APPDATA%\HowToSimplified_8e
%LOCALAPPDATA%\HowToSimplifiedTooltab
%LOCALAPPDATA%\HowToSimplified_8e
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\HowToSimplified_8e
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\HowToSimplifiedTooltab

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