Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2

Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2 is an adware bundler that installs several other software’s with itself like Adware-SaveNow (WhenU) and Adware-Url.gen and the adware that it installs with itself shows advertising and deceptive warnings.

General information:

Malware Name: Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2
Malware Type: Adware Bundler
Company Name: Acez Software LLC
Company URL: http://www.acez.com/
Threat Level: Moderate Risk
Operating System: WIN XP
Installation Type: Installed through EXE
Operation: Time of After Installation

Company Description:

Acez Software LLC provides you the software Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2 that floats the phrase Happy New Year! around your screen. You can see the exploding graffiti in the background while listening to party noise makers.

Spyware Description:

Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2 is an adware bundler that installs several other software’s with itself like Adware-SaveNow (WhenU) and Adware-Url.gen and the adware that it installs with itself shows advertising and deceptive warnings.

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It installs several other software’s with itself like Adware-SaveNow (WhenU) and Adware-Url.gen. -> The adware that it installs with itself shows advertising and deceptive warnings.

Additional information might be found here:

google Search at Google for Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2
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yahoo Search at Yahoo for Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2

Processes Running:

Happy New Year.scr

File information Created after Installation:

File Location Size (Bytes) Type
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Favorites\Acez.com - Download Free Screen Savers!.url 169 Internet Shortcut
C:\Program Files\Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.2\acez.htm 134 HTML Document
C:\WINDOWS\acezsoftware\newyear\graffiti3.bmp 2394 Bitmap Image

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Start Menu\Programs\Happy New Year Screen Saver 1.
C:\WINDOWS\acezsoftware\newyea

Registry information Created after Installation:

Main Registry Key Sub Registry Key Key Value Name
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Happy New Year Screen Saver Publisher
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Happy New Year Screen Saver URLInfoAbout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Happy New Year Screen Saver UninstallString