Friday
2008-11-30, 00:58
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Adblaster.Info" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
malware
Description:
Ad popups every 30 seconds.
Privacy Statement:
Your Privacy is important to us
The Adblaster Corporation protects each user's privacy by not collecting any personally identifiable information whatsoever. We don't know who you are and we know nothing about you personally. We do not store personally identifiable information or use it in any way.
Third Party Advertising
Several advertising companies and other third-party advertising companies will serve ads to you when you download our freeware. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements to you about goods and services that may be of interest. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
Links (be careful!):
Company: http://www.adblaster.info/
Privacy: http://www.adblaster.info/privacy.htm
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named or pointing to "IEExplorer.exe".
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{4CEBBC6B-5CEE-4644-80CF-38980BAE93F6}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
If Adblaster.Info uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
malware
Description:
Ad popups every 30 seconds.
Privacy Statement:
Your Privacy is important to us
The Adblaster Corporation protects each user's privacy by not collecting any personally identifiable information whatsoever. We don't know who you are and we know nothing about you personally. We do not store personally identifiable information or use it in any way.
Third Party Advertising
Several advertising companies and other third-party advertising companies will serve ads to you when you download our freeware. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements to you about goods and services that may be of interest. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp
Links (be careful!):
Company: http://www.adblaster.info/
Privacy: http://www.adblaster.info/privacy.htm
Removal Instructions:
Autorun:
Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd), RunAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=runalyzer) or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.
Entries named or pointing to "IEExplorer.exe".
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{4CEBBC6B-5CEE-4644-80CF-38980BAE93F6}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
If Adblaster.Info uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.