NJStar Asian Explorer

NJStar Asian Explorer is a browser helper object with elevated risk that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It adds an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors pages visited by the user and opens or redirects to advertising. NJStar Asian Explorer is a browser helper object with elevated risk that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It adds an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors pages visited by the user and opens or redirects to advertising.0

General information:

Malware Name:	NJStar Asian Explorer
Malware Type:	Browser Helper Object
Company Name:	NJStar Software Corp
Company URL:	http://www.njstar.com/
Threat Level:	Elevated Risk
Operating System:	WIN XP
Installation Type:	Installed through EXE
Operation:	Time of After Installation

Company Description:

NJStar Software Corp provides you the software NJStar Asian Explorer that is a free web browser just like Microsoft Internet Explorer, but specially designed for surfing Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) web sites. It functions are that it can grab news headlines from user-defined web sites and also support Chinese/Japanese/Korean Domain Names Resolution! And Verisign ML.com in IETF approved IDN standard (new)!

Spyware Description:

NJStar Asian Explorer is a browser helper object with elevated risk that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It adds an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors pages visited by the user and opens or redirects to advertising. NJStar Asian Explorer is a browser helper object with elevated risk that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It adds an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors pages visited by the user and opens or redirects to advertising.0

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. -> It adds an IE Browser Helper Object that monitors pages visited by the user and opens or redirects to advertising. -> The browser also display it's own popup advertisements.

Additional information might be found here:

	Search at Google for NJStar Asian Explorer
	Search at Bing for NJStar Asian Explorer
	Search at Yahoo for NJStar Asian Explorer

Processes Running:

Njexplor.exe

File information Created after Installation:

File Location	Size (Bytes)	Type
C:\Documents and Settings\priya\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ NJStar Asian Explorer.lnk	617	Shortcut
C:\Program Files\NJStar Asian Explorer\Njksx2uc.cnv	38950	CNV File
C:\Program Files\NJStar Asian Explorer\Njuc2js.cnv	131360	CNV File

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location

Registry information Created after Installation: