FatPickle

FatPickle is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on our system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter our desktop and affect our productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track or to display advertisements can tax computer and hurt our system performance. It includes Moderate risk threats are often bundled with functionally unrelated software or installed without adequate notice and consent, and may display unwanted advertising on the user's desktop. Such threats may track users' online browsing habits and transmit non-personally identifying data back to a server in order to target advertising0

General information:

Malware Name:	FatPickle
Malware Type:	Toolbar
Company Name:	FatPickle
Company URL:	http://fatpickle.com/
Threat Level:	Moderate Risk
Operating System:	WIN XP
Installation Type:	Installed through EXE
Operation:	Time of After Installation.

Company Description:

The FatPickle Toolbar lets us use the FatPickle search and search management tools from any site. The toolbar will allow to SaveSites; make SiteNotes, as well as Move2Top and BlockSites from our search results. The FatPickle Toolbar is the perfect companion to our personalized search experience that we get with FatPickle. The toolbar is currently for Internet Explorer only. A Mozilla based toolbar is under development

Spyware Description:

FatPickle is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on our system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter our desktop and affect our productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track or to display advertisements can tax computer and hurt our system performance. It includes Moderate risk threats are often bundled with functionally unrelated software or installed without adequate notice and consent, and may display unwanted advertising on the user's desktop. Such threats may track users' online browsing habits and transmit non-personally identifying data back to a server in order to target advertising0

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It has a search function and provides search results for paid advertisers -> Track browsing habits -> Adds a third-party utility bar to the web browser -> Changes browser -> Shows Advertisements0

Additional information might be found here:

	Search at Google for FatPickle
	Search at Bing for FatPickle
	Search at Yahoo for FatPickle

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location	Size (Bytes)	Type
C:\Program Files\Fatpickle Toolbar\basis.xml	9276	XML Document
C:\Program Files\Fatpickle Toolbar\fatpickle.crc	100	CRC File
C:\Program Files\Fatpickle Toolbar\fatpickle.dll	524288	Application Extension

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location
C:\Program Files\Fatpickle Toolbar

Registry information Created after Installation: