X Hollywood Media Bar

X Hollywood Media Bar is a toolbar that makes unwanted changes browser, such as reconfiguring browser’s search settings. It tracks browsing and search queries. It also adds a toolbar to the web browser.

General information:

Malware Name: X Hollywood Media Bar
Malware Type: Toolbar
Company Name: xHollywood.com
Company URL: http://bar.xhollywood.com/
Threat Level: Elevated Risk
Operating System: WIN XP
Installation Type: Installed through EXE
Operation: Time of After Installation

Company Description:

xHollywood.com provides you the software X Hollywood Media Bar that provides you the hottest videos and latest videos from feed room and also provides you video search and videos available to toolbar user. Its other features are pop up blocker, google search, yahoo video search and highlight all the search term, zoom in or zoom out.

Spyware Description:

X Hollywood Media Bar is a toolbar that makes unwanted changes browser, such as reconfiguring browser’s search settings. It tracks browsing and search queries. It also adds a toolbar to the web browser.

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It adds a toolbar to the web browser. -> It has a search function and provides search results for paid advertisers. -> It tracks browsing and search queries.

Additional information might be found here:

google Search at Google for X Hollywood Media Bar
bing Search at Bing for X Hollywood Media Bar
yahoo Search at Yahoo for X Hollywood Media Bar

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location Size (Bytes) Type
C:\Program Files\X Hollywood Media Bar\favicon.ico 8102 ViewerInDepth Icon
C:\Program Files\X Hollywood Media Bar\icons.bmp 13878 ViewerInDepth BMP image
C:\Program Files\X Hollywood Media Bar\newversion.txt 54 Text Document

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location

Registry information Created after Installation:

Main Registry Key Sub Registry Key Key Value Name
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ToolBand.XBTB04084.1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\XBTB04084\Toolbar\Historycombo
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\XBTB04084\Toolbar\tb_items tbs_item_008190