Phrase Professor Ads

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 10,280
Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 2,993
First Seen: August 3, 2015
Last Seen: September 18, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

An ad-supported software on your system generates the ads by Phrase Professor in your Internet client. The Phrase Professor browser plug-in is promoted as a tool for searching and translating the information on the Web by providing aggregated results from Wikipedia and Bing. The Phrase Professor plug-in may have arrived on your computer incorporated with a free software package and can be downloaded directly from PhraseProfessor.com. The Phrase Professor browser plug-in functions similarly to the ReferenceBoss app and will display advertisements to support its development. Security investigators perceive the Phrase Professor plug-in as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may obstruct your Internet activities by displaying too many ads. You should note that the Phrase Professor plug-in will rear information like your Internet browsing logs and bookmarks to show shopping comparison, coupons, inline ads and discounts related to your online behavior. The Phrase Professor plug-in will show pop-up windows when you highlight text on a webpage to provide you with relevant information. Additionally, the Phrase Professor app will make an entry in the Windows Registry to launch a background service at boot-up. The Phrase Professor plug-in may decrease your overall computer performance and offer you to install programs like ConvertAd and Search Protection that have a bad reputation. Many users may want to seek more optimized, and ads-free alternatives to the Phrase Professor plug-in considering the information provided above. You can use a reputable anti-spyware utility to remove the Phrase Professor software securely.

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Registry Details

Phrase Professor Ads may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
Regexp file mask
%WINDIR%\system32\Drivers\PPFD_vt_1_10_0_[RANDOM CHARACTERS].sys
%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\PhraseProfessor Auto Updater[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\PhraseProfessorAutoUpdateClient_RASAPI32
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\PhraseProfessorAutoUpdateClient_RASMANCS
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\PhraseProfessorAutoUpdateClient_RASAPI32
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\PhraseProfessorAutoUpdateClient_RASMANCS

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