Salus
Threat Scorecard
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Popularity Rank: The ranking of a particular threat in EnigmaSoft’s Threat Database.
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See also Threat Assessment Criteria.
| Popularity Rank: | 20,076 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 26,322 |
| First Seen: | August 14, 2014 |
| Last Seen: | October 24, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Ads by Salus is an adware threat and program that may render several pop-up ads among other pop-ups that attempt to over various promotions and movies to stream over the internet. Salus could be loaded on your system through the installation of random bundled software programs or freeware applications. In the case that you have allowed Salus to install, it may then run in the background were you are bombarded with ads while you are surfing the internet. At the time of using your web browser, Salus could cause performance to be an issue when loading certain sites. In the case of needing to remove Salus you may take the use of an antispyware tool to do the job.
Table of Contents
Aliases
7 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Antivirus Vendor | Detection |
|---|---|
| Fortinet | Adware/Alnaddy |
| Antiy-AVL | Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric |
| AVG | Generic.A07 |
| Sophos | Alnaddy |
| K7AntiVirus | Riskware ( 0040f0f51 ) |
| McAfee | Artemis!09F59DB84947 |
| Symantec | WS.Reputation.1 |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Salus
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. | cf3e08d747e4.exe | fca358d4190e66a11eb784784324420d | 4,247 |
| 2. | crashmon.exe | 60158655b4268ae96e4133050b761de6 | 3,589 |
| 3. | b786bdb3c67d.exe | 0621600df5521d74934f50def2b45d14 | 2,920 |
| 4. | salus.sys | ef7d669a8801f62435fe4b128875a7af | 2,010 |
| 5. | b786bdb3c67d.sys | c90a30ebff47cf4fcb5e5dbeee2e345e | 380 |
| 6. | isis.sys | 065cafadc592b0708f72ee6ace60c2c7 | 221 |
| 7. | mwiynzm4ndy1yjz.exe | df77c2a4445496a04ba0b1d1673bf63e | 126 |
| 8. | UpdaterService.exe | 92cf16e0be041125c2dc62ee324e4338 | 104 |
| 9. | SalusUninstaller.exe | a392e003ee09c6161523e38621cb550e | 35 |
| 10. | zgmxzmqzm2vlmgy.exe | 562aa480853c8d533d5ac981e5d13090 | 32 |
| 11. | mwmyzjmzngu1mdy.exe | 062bd8981cb4a40685febf0d148bd0d2 | 1 |
Registry Details
Directories
Salus may create the following directory or directories:
| %PROGRAMFILES%\0ca45c95134d |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\Salus |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\Smwyyntm1ndi1zdz |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\Umtayyznhndq1ntz |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\f552dd4c52e3 |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\0ca45c95134d |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Salus |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Smwyyntm1ndi1zdz |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Umtayyznhndq1ntz |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\f552dd4c52e3 |
