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Adware.Whenu.BSQ

First posted on 21 November 2011.
Source: BitDefender

Aliases :

Adware.Whenu.BSQ is also known as Adware:Win32/Advantage Adware.SaveNow.origin ADSPY/Whenu.T.

Explanation :

This is a new variant of the well known advertising software distributed with various legitimate software, named Adware.WhenU or Adware.SaveNow described here:
http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000147-en--Adware.Whenu.E.html and
http://www.bitdefender.ro/VIRUS-1000131-ro--Adware.SaveNow.AX.html

This new variant installs itself as a Mozilla Firefox browser extension. It has the capability of monitoring and spying all the content of the web pages opened by Firefox and all the search queries that you do with major web search engines.
This information is used in advertising campaigns targeted directly to your computer or other computers and users that somehow share the same interests as you.

Last update 21 November 2011

 

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