BrainBoost 1.0

BrainBoost 1.0 is a toolbar that adds an extra toolbar to the web browser. It slows the browser’s navigation speed.

General information:

Malware Name:	BrainBoost 1.0
Malware Type:	Toolbar
Company Name:	ToolbarDesign Software
Company URL:	http://www.toolbardesign.com/
Threat Level:	Moderate Risk
Operating System:	WIN XP
Installation Type:	Installed through EXE
Operation:	Time of After Installation

Company Description:

ToolbarDesign Software provides you the software BrainBoost 1.0 that provides you a Question Answering search engine. It was specifically designed to answer questions, asked in plain English. BrainBoost is 100% automated. Unlike other Question Answering engines, BrainBoost does not rely on human editors to locate answers. Instead, BrainBoost employs cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to understand your question and match it with relevant answers it locates on the web. BrainBoost outputs actual sentences extracted from web pages. The BrainBoost engine determines that these sentences are potential answers to the original question.

Spyware Description:

BrainBoost 1.0 is a toolbar that adds an extra toolbar to the web browser. It slows the browser’s navigation speed.

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It slows the browser’s navigation speed. -> It adds an extra toolbar to the web browser.

Additional information might be found here:

	Search at Google for BrainBoost 1.0
	Search at Bing for BrainBoost 1.0
	Search at Yahoo for BrainBoost 1.0

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location	Size (Bytes)	Type
C:\Program Files\BrainBoost\Toolbar\toolbar.dll	200704	Application Extension
C:\Program Files\BrainBoost\Toolbar\toolbar_img.bmp	1592	Bitmap Image

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location
C:\Program Files\BrainBoost\Toolba

Registry information Created after Installation: