Nova 3000

Nova 3000 is an adware bundler that installs several other software’s with itself Adware-SaveNow,Adware-WhenUSearch (WhenU) , NDotNet. and the adware that it installs with itself shows advertising and deceptive warnings.

General information:

Malware Name: Nova 3000
Malware Type: Adware Bundler
Company Name: free-games.to
Company URL: http://free-games.to/
Threat Level: Moderate Risk
Operating System: WIN XP
Installation Type: Installed through EXE
Operation: Time of After Installation

Company Description:

free-games.to provides you the software Nova 3000 that is a tactical, top down shooter. Your mission is to destory all robots on each of the 17 levels (plus 2 secret levels). You control a ship fitted with 3 different weapons, each robot will only be destroyed by the correct weapon, so you better be careful. Those damn robots are everywhere, kill them quick!

Spyware Description:

Nova 3000 is an adware bundler that installs several other software’s with itself Adware-SaveNow,Adware-WhenUSearch (WhenU) , NDotNet. 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,Adware-WhenUSearch (WhenU) and NDotNet. -> The adware that it installs with itself shows advertising and deceptive warnings.

Additional information might be found here:

google Search at Google for Nova 3000
bing Search at Bing for Nova 3000
yahoo Search at Yahoo for Nova 3000

Processes Running:

Nova 3000.exe

File information Created after Installation:

File Location Size (Bytes) Type
C:\Program Files\Nova 3000\INSTALL.LOG 1887 Text Document
C:\Program Files\Nova 3000\License Agreement.txt 3847 Text Document
desktop \FREE STUFF.lnk 1402 Shortcut

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Start Menu\Programs\Nova 300

Registry information Created after Installation:

Main Registry Key Sub Registry Key Key Value Name
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\ARPCache\Nova 3000
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\ARPCache\Nova 3000 Changed
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Nova 3000 UninstallString