Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Shorty.Gopher Adware

Removing Shorty.Gopher
Categories: Adware,Toolbar
Adware are programs that facilitate delivery for advertising content to the user and in some cases gather information from the user's computer, including information related to Internet browser usage or other computer habits
Toolbar presents itself as a helpful add-on for Internet Explorer but it is a real pest. It replaces your start page, continuosly open a number of pop up windows and so on.

How to detect Shorty.Gopher:

Folders:
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\dns
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\OIN Search

Registry Keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{fff4e223-7019-4ce7-be03-d7d3c8cce884}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iecatcher.iewebcatcher
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\iecatcher.iewebcatcher.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{31ca5c07-7f5f-4502-8c77-99a91558add0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{fff1f09e-4488-4029-b487-3c3c0cfcf89c}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{fff428b9-c95e-48b1-bd0f-11ae94ea1878}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{223a26d8-9f91-42f6-8ed3-094b637de020}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{fff24f28-3ae2-46cd-aebe-2f625133a1ca}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{11a4ca8c-a8b9-49c2-a6d3-3f64c9eebae6}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\shorty.gopher
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\shorty.gopher.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\browser helper objects\{fff4e223-7019-4ce7-be03-d7d3c8cce884}

Registry Values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

Removing Shorty.Gopher:

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