Geowhere
It 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 you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track us or to display advertisements can tax our computer and hurt our system performance. It also includes Moderate risk threats that
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 advertising.0
General information:
| Malware Name: |
Geowhere |
| Malware Type: |
Adware |
| Company Name: |
GeoWhere |
| Company URL: |
http://www.geowhere.net/
|
| Threat Level: |
Moderate Risk |
| Operating System: |
WIN XP |
| Installation Type: |
Installed through EXE |
| Operation: |
Time of After Installation. |
Company Description:
GeoWhere is a program containing multiple useful tools that will make many jobs a lot easier and faster to do. It contains a desktop search engine that will send queries to multiple search engines and return the results to you, saving you the trouble
to visit all those search engines and manually typing your query into each one. It Search the web for the latest world news. Find and test proxy servers to surf anonymous and speed up our surfing.
Spyware Description:
It 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 you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track us or to display advertisements can tax our computer and hurt our system performance. It also includes Moderate risk threats that
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 advertising.0
Characteristics/Symptoms:
-> Displays third-party advertising on the computer -> Tracks browsing habits -> Degrade the performance and stability of the computer. -> Bundled with other adware 0
Additional information might be found here:
Processes Running:
GeoWhere.2.61.lite.exe
File information Created after Installation:
| File Location |
Size (Bytes) |
Type |
| C:\Program Files\GeoWhere Lite\Options\Bookmark_Checker.INI |
unknown |
Configuration Settings |
| C:\Program Files\GeoWhere Lite\Options\ComboBox_DNS.INI |
5 |
Configuration Settings |
| C:\Program Files\GeoWhere Lite\Options\ComboBox_FILEDUPS.INI |
10 |
Configuration Settings |
Folder information Created after Installation:
| Folder Location |
| C:\Program Files\GeoWhere Lite |
| C:\Program Files\GeoWhere Lite\Cache |
Registry information Created after Installation:
| Main Registry Key |
Sub Registry Key |
Key Value Name |
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Geowhere 2.61 (Lite)_is1 |
NoRepair |
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Geowhere 2.61 (Lite)_is1 |
QuietUninstallString |
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Geowhere 2.61 (Lite)_is1 |
UninstallString |
