Threat Database Adware Sure PC Backup Ads

Sure PC Backup Ads

By GoldSparrow in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Threat Level: 20 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 7
First Seen: December 11, 2015
Last Seen: January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Sure PC Backup software is promoted on Surepcbackup.com as the best utility to do regular backups of your files right from your Web browser interface. The Sure PC Backup software is supposed to speed up the upload of your data on cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, Mega and One Drive. However, the Sure PC Backup program is an adware that may place links to cloud storage services on your desktop and display numerous pop-up and pop-under windows to promote products from suspicious online stores. Security researchers add that the Sure PC Backup adware may be connected to riskware from ReImage and bad toolbars from Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. such as the From Doc to Pdf Toolbar. You might want to avoid using the Sure PC Backup adware to backup your files given the fact that adware is designed to show ads and should not be delegated the rights to manipulate your data. The Sure PC Backup adware may redirect you to untrusted apps that require access to your online drive and do not support HTTPS encryption.

Text, images, and videos that you process with insecure applications like Sure PC Backup may be collected by third parties. The Sure PC Backup adware may load ads from the network of the Network Advertising Initiative and use tracking cookies and WEB storage data to facilitate behavioral marketing. The Sure PC Backup adware may show advertising materials on banners and floating ad-boxes as well as load video commercials when you visit video sharing platforms like YouTube, Vimeo and Metacafe. The Sure PC Backup adware may include a task in the Windows Task Scheduler to download additional adware like WikiTime and YTDownloader. The activities of the Sure PC Backup adware might decrease your overall computer performance and introduce bad programs into your Windows OS. Therefore, you should install a reputable anti-malware tool that can delete the binary associated with Sure PC Backup and restore your optimal system settings.

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Directories

Sure PC Backup Ads may create the following directory or directories:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Sure PC Backup
%PROGRAMFILES%\Sure PC Backup
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Sure PC Backup

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