Homepage Hijacker/Adlight

Alias: Adlight

Description: Homepage Hijacker/Adlight is homepage hijacker. A Homepage Hijacker is a software application that takes control over your browser's settings. Usually it changes your home page and redirects it to some other site or modifies your search settings. It prevents you to change browser's settings. In such hijacks, your browser may operate normally, but be much slower.

Threat type:

Homepage Hijacker - A Homepage Hijacker is a software application that takes control over your browser's settings. Usually it changes your home page and redirects it to some other site or modifies your search settings. It prevents you to change browser's settings. In such hijacks, your browser may operate normally, but be 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 Homepage Hijacker/Adlight: 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:

Homepage Hijacker/Adlight 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 Homepage Hijacker/Adlight, you can clean your computer by downloading SpyNoMore now.

Running Process Signatures:
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File Signatures:
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Registered Dll (Dynamic Link Library) Signatures:
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Folder Signatures:
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Registry Signatures:
HKCR\adlight2.adlight
HKCR\clsid\{b98271ab-286e-4421-87f9-14c3aaac079f}
HKCR\typelib\{94f18e9a-00c4-48c7-a768-75f7222e4f88}
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\browser helper objects\{bdfd403f-02cb-4f53-9336-560176f28e9a}
HKCR\adlight2.adlight.1
HKCR\interface\{22c97fe4-2ae6-4c11-9607-903947b0d33e}
HKCR\clsid\{bdfd403f-02cb-4f53-9336-560176f28e9a}

SpyNoMore Collected Residual File Signatures:
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