Squarez

Squarez 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: Squarez
Malware Type: Adware Bundler
Company Name: Zango Games LLC
Company URL: http://www.softinformer.com/
Threat Level: Moderate Risk
Operating System: WIN XP
Installation Type: Installed through EXE
Operation: Time of After Installation

Company Description:

Zango Games LLC provides you the software Squarez that is an original and amazingly addictive puzzle game in which you have to spot patterns of squares from different colored blocks, they could be regular squares, but you get more points for diagonal diamond shaped squares.

Spyware Description:

Squarez 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 Squarez
bing Search at Bing for Squarez
yahoo Search at Yahoo for Squarez

Processes Running:

Squarez.exe

File information Created after Installation:

File Location Size (Bytes) Type
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Start Menu\Programs\Squarez\License Agreement.lnk 584 Shortcut
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\Start Menu\Programs\Squarez\Squarez.lnk 1424 Shortcut
C:\Program Files\Squarez\Squarez.exe 1807422 Application

Folder information Created after Installation:

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

Registry information Created after Installation:

Main Registry Key Sub Registry Key Key Value Name
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Squarez DisplayName
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Squarez DisplayVersion
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Squarez Publisher