Home / Spyware Encyclopedia / Adware.PC MightyMax | |  | Adware.PC MightyMax Technical Details |  | | | Category |  | Adware | | Discovered | | 12/15/2007 13:23:00 PM | | Modified | | 5/3/2008 17:06:00 PM | | Threat Level | | Medium | | Description | | 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. They can take up your computers resources and are largely responsible for the countless popup ads you receive on the web. Adware is often bundled with or embedded within freeware programs like such as clocks, messengers, alerts, weather, and so on. | | Summary | | the hosts file was updated with the following url-to-ip mappings : n/a
the following http urls were started :
www.bjhometest.com
ad.swsoft.com.cn
go.58.com
generated smtp traffic : n/a
there was a new connection established with a remote irc server : n/a
the following hidden entries created : n/a
the following internet connection was established:
202.47.29.30:80
207.46.216.55:80(c.live.com)
manual pcmightymax installed.
| | When the Adware is executed, it creates the following files: | | Name | Version | Publisher | Signature (MD5) | File Size (in Bytes) | | ..\desktop\run pc mightymax!.lnk | | | | 1718 | | ..\pcmightymaxsetup.exe | 9.50.98.0 | Sonbry Marketing International | 9300a999a4320dc079e81f1e33fb44e0 | 4291824 | | ..\pcmightymaxsetup.exe | 9.50.98.0 | Sonbry Marketing International | bf96c71a52647b888a59695366dbf713 | 4334008 |
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| | When the Adware is executed, it creates the following Registry entries: | | | |
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