RocketTab
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| Popularity Rank: | 12,758 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 26,274 |
| First Seen: | December 20, 2013 |
| Last Seen: | October 24, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
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Malware researchers have received reports of problems associated with RocketTab, a low quality browser add-on. Computer users have reported that RocketTab causes browser redirects, unwanted pop-ups and a variety of other issues. Because of this, malware researchers have categorized RocketTab Potentially Unwanted Program. PUPs like RocketTab generally take the form of Web browser plug-ins or extensions for most Web browsers on the Windows operating system, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Although PUPs like RocketTab are not considered a threat, these PUPs may cause symptoms that are commonly linked to threats. More importantly, RocketTab and PUPs like RocketTab may cause system performance issues and endanger your privacy by allowing marketers to gain access to your private information for use in marketing research or for sale to a third party. Because of this, malware analysts energetically recommend that PC users stay away from the installation of RocketTab. RocketTab should be removed from your Web browser immediately.
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RocketTab is the Kind of Rocket that Never Should Be on Your Space
Malware researchers consider that RocketTab is potentially threatening to computers because of the following issues that may be linked to this low quality program:
- RocketTab takes over the computer user's Web browser. Because of this, malware researchers categorize RocketTab as a browser hijacker. Essentially, RocketTab forces the affected Web browser to visit certain websites repeatedly. RocketTab redirects are used to promote these websites, raising their traffic numbers and page ranking.
- RocketTab is designed to expose computer users to advertising content. RocketTab may cause numerous pop-up advertisements and suspicious pop-up messages on the affected Web browser. These pop-up advertisements may interrupt the computer users' activities, seriously disrupting the affected Web browser. RocketTab may add unwanted advertisement content to legitimate websites. For example, RocketTab may add banner and sliding advertisements to websites that the computer user visits. RocketTab has also been associated with in-text marketing links.
- RocketTab may cause system performance issues due to the fact that RocketTab may consume system resources and bandwidth. RocketTab may cause the affected Web browser to freeze or crash frequently.
SpyHunter Detects & Remove RocketTab
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. | A0010334.exe | 118700722c5921a62a4610521efbb0f2 | 303 |
| 2. | rtSxqC4TVt.exe | e9715f629e49d7601e3dc473a1592be0 | 188 |
| 3. | uninstall.exe | 1be4534311a6701babbed12fabab1865 | 180 |
| 4. | rtVCVkI7bC.exe | 02b66add0cc97fff39260bb8f850b471 | 165 |
| 5. | rt-update.exe | 38e983fd283e5da87510ccf51bc370be | 158 |
| 6. | RocketTab.dll | 721390ac23733f9dad33891344812989 | 0 |
| 7. | RocketTabInstall.dll | f3511498375aef2b6e6d2a31d32def4a | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
RocketTab may create the following directory or directories:
| %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Installer\{2C8EBA8C-51A3-44A6-8532-05DFBECFCB3B} |
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\eegbcllkjnijlnjahbfcgogkomnnbncf |
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\Search Extensions |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\Search Extensions |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Search Extensions |
| %ProgramFiles%\RocketTab |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\RocketTab |
