View Four

View Four is an adware application that installs a browser helper object (BHO) in the form of a toolbar in Internet Explorer.0

General information:

Malware Name:	View Four
Malware Type:	Adware
Company Name:	ViewFour
Company URL:	http://www.viewfour.com/
Threat Level:	Moderate Risk
Operating System:	WIN XP
Installation Type:	Installed through EXE
Operation:	Time of After Installation

Company Description:

ViewFour's mission is to make searching the web's billions of pages faster and more intuitive by making search a visual activity. Dozens of search engines are already at our fingertips. It has the ability to search the web and display our results in orderly rows of text-only links. But only ViewFour's revolutionary new windowing format shows us actual live previews (organized by relevance) of the destination sites that match our search. ViewFour also gives us the resources of Google, MSN, Yahoo, FindWhat and other sites, plus the protection of ViewSmart's anti-spyware/adware/malware/virus software.

Spyware Description:

View Four is an adware application that installs a browser helper object (BHO) in the form of a toolbar in Internet Explorer.0

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> Displays third-party advertising on the computer -> Tracks browsing habits -> Degrade the performance and stability of the computer. -> Bundled with other adware0

Additional information might be found here:

	Search at Google for View Four
	Search at Bing for View Four
	Search at Yahoo for View Four

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location	Size (Bytes)	Type
C:\Program Files\ViewFour.com - ViewSmart¬\irunin.ini	18253	Configuration Settings
C:\Program Files\ViewFour.com - ViewSmart¬\irunin.lng	15938	LNG File
C:\viewfour\IEPlugin.ocx	163840	ActiveX Control

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location
C:\Program Files\ViewFour.com - ViewSmart¬
C:\viewfour

Registry information Created after Installation: