Threat Database Adware Sale Planet Ads

Sale Planet Ads

By GoldSparrow in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 7
First Seen: March 3, 2016
Last Seen: January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Sale Planet browser extension that is available for download and installation from Saleplanet.net may be delivered to your PC incorporated with a free application like FaceThemes and IePluginService. The Sale Planet extension is promoted as a shopping helper that can help users find photos of products, enlarge them and explore comparative pricing from multiple online stores simultaneously. Unfortunately, the Sale Planet extension is deemed as adware by security researchers. You may wish to know that the Sale Planet adware is created by the infamous Yontoo LLC and includes code from several other adware-powered applications including SerialTrunc and Great Hub. The Sale Planet adware may install itself as a network adapter onto your Windows OS to remain undetected and connected to the Internet uninterrupted. The Sale Planet adware may disable ad-blockers and Web filters that you installed. The Sale Planet adware is designed to use the Windows Task Manager to kill processes that may prevent its operations, and it may ask for elevated system privileges.

Moreover, the Sale Planet adware may redirect users to corrupted online stores where their credit cards data and contact details may be acquired by untrusted advertisers and companies that are not licensed to process personally identifiable information. The activity of the Sale Planet adware may be manifested by the appearance of numerous banners and pop-up windows loaded with advertising content. The Sale Planet adware may use JavaScrip and iFrames to show marketing materials on your new tab pages and every site you visit online. As stated above, the Sale Planet adware may connect to the Internet over insecure channels and kill another process on your system, which makes it a security vulnerability that may be exploited via Man-in-the-Middle attacks. Computer users are advised to address the infection with Sale Planet by using a renowned anti-malware tool that can purge all of its components before they are loaded into the memory.

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Directories

Sale Planet Ads may create the following directory or directories:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Sale Planet
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Sale Planet

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