SpecialSavings
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| Ranking: | 8,097 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 6,708 |
| First Seen: | October 24, 2011 |
| Last Seen: | March 7, 2024 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SpecialSavings is a web browser plugin that attempts to offer online shopping savings and deals. Many times SpecialSavings will get in the way with annoying pop-ups and rendering redirects to unwanted sites. The SpecialSavings add-on is not malicious by itself but rather an unwanted extension that may be installed directly from the SpecialSavings.com website or through the installation of bundled software. Either way, once SpecialSavings is loaded it will repeatedly attempt to offer online deals causing for a annoying situation for computer users. Automatic removal of SpecialSavings can be handled with the use of an antispyware application.
Table of Contents
Aliases
1 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| AntiVir | ADSPY/SuperFish.A |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove SpecialSavings
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. | SpecialSavingsSinged.dll | d8e638465254e844a0049ac9108fc483 | 1,286 |
| 2. | SpecialSavings.dll | 4d24bf22483cb058e769d43abe953b6d | 1,115 |
| 3. | SpecialSavingsSinged.dll.vir | 1266f1c721741bce32890ad0de9aff76 | 235 |
| 4. | SpecialSavingsSinged.dll | 135ebb4819704fa52a9221419191e80e | 12 |
| 5. | DealFinderSetup.exe | 1203d06c42a49ed753a316bd534c35b9 | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
SpecialSavings may create the following directory or directories:
| %APPDATA%\SpecialSavings |
| %PROGRAMFILES%\SpecialSavings |
| %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\SpecialSavings |
URLs
SpecialSavings may call the following URLs:
| specialsavings.com |
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