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StatBlaster Adware Information
| Name: |
StatBlaster |
| Category: |
Adware |
| Advice: |
Remove |
| Risk: |
Elevated Risk
Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. |
| Description:
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StatBlaster is an adware component, and may be used in partnership with other adware packages.
StatBlaster may be installed without the user's permission by ISTBar, RapidBlaster or Second Thought Adware.
StatBlaster may install third part software, such as Bargain Buddy, PurityScan, Keen Value, AdGoblin (AdsInContext), IEDriver (TurboDownload), SaveNow and Peper Trojan (Memory Watcher): "The StatBlaster installer may install, or provide options to install other 3rd party software that will show advertisments in the form of pop- unders, interstitials, banner ads, and/ or hyperlinks. A full list of our partners can be found at http://origin.statblaster.com/partners.html StatBlaster is provided free of charge, requiring no payment from you whatsoever; In exchange, installed with StatBlaster are some small programs from other companies. We hope that this exchange is agreeable to you, it helps us produce free software! If not, we apologize for any inconvenience - you may uninstall the bundled software and use StatBlaster for free, as our guest, or you may uninstall StatBlaster entirely. StatBlaster and the bundled software components are completely separate, and have their own uninstallers (through Add/Remove Programs)."
Most likely downloaded from a site that includes adware, or from Statblaster.com, as part of a "Baseball Fantasy" promotion.
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| Signatures:
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process: getstats.exe: MD5 Hash: e129eb503e94751cefe...
process: statblaster.exe: MD5 Hash: b35185d78cb7fad6f6f...
process: updatestats.exe: MD5 Hash: 594c7228f832f59f02c...
process: statblaster.exe: MD5 Hash: ...
process: UpdateStats.exe: MD5 Hash: ...
process: biggie.exe: MD5 Hash: 22368203dc6eec7370d...
process: WinWildApp.exe: MD5 Hash: ...
process: update_1.exe: MD5 Hash: .. |
| Type: |
Adware - Adware is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on your system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter your desktop and affect your productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track you or to display advertisements can tax your computer and hurt your system performance. |
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