Hijacker/Flooder/Exploit/MailSpam.Zeropopup.a

Alias: Flooder.MailSpam.Zeropopup.a, ZeroPopup

Description: An Internet Explorer toolbar with a pop-up advert-blocking feature, which also hijacks homepage and search settings to znext.com every time IE is started.

Threat type:

Exploit - Exploit is a general term describing a way of breaking into a system. Exploits take advantage of a weakness in a computer system in order to hack it.

Flooder - A Flooder is any software application that tries to overload a connection by any intrusive mechanism, such as fast pinging, causing a Denial of Service attacks, Ping of Death attacks, ICMP attacks, http overload attacks, etc.

Hijacker - A Hijacker is a software application that takes control of your browser's settings. Usually it changes your home page and redirects it to some unknown site or modifies your search settings. It prevents you from changing back your browser's settings. An infected browser usually operates much slower.

Advice: Remove This is a very high risk threat and should be removed immediately as to prevent harm to your computer or your privacy.

Detection:
SpyNoMore detects Hijacker/Flooder/Exploit/MailSpam.Zeropopup.a: Yes

Threat risk: High Risk

Very dangerous malware. Can log user's keyboard activity and take snapshots of the user's screen. Uses stealth installation and removal is very difficult. Category includes spyware programs, adware programs and trojans.

Symptoms:

Hijacker/Flooder/Exploit/MailSpam.Zeropopup.a Signature Details: The following information includes some of the standard signatures associated with this spyware threat. Please do not attempt to manually remove these items from your computer; Removing these items incorrectly or partially can cause your computer to experience critical errors, prevent your computer from restarting or cause loss of Internet connectivity. Should you be infected with Hijacker/Flooder/Exploit/MailSpam.Zeropopup.a, you can clean your computer by downloading SpyNoMore now.

Running Process Signatures:
N/A

File Signatures:
%WINDOWS%\downloaded program files\zp.inf
%WINDOWS%\system\zp.dll

Registered Dll (Dynamic Link Library) Signatures:
N/A

Folder Signatures:
N/A

Registry Signatures:
N/A

SpyNoMore Collected Residual File Signatures:
N/A

See Also:
BHO/QaBar 2003, 4, 29, 1
Hacker Tool/ScanMyA__1.2
RAT/RemoteProcessLaunch
Trojan/Ubuster
Trojan/Nuker/Belnow.c
Adware/Downloader/UpdateLoader
Hijacker/ISTbar.AUpdate
Hijacker/ISTbar.MSCache
Hijacker/Toolbar/Search Hijacker/ISTbar.XXXToolbar
Adware/Spyware/Hijacker/BDHelper