Jan 10
This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats
Coming in at number 8 this week is C2.Lop. You may ask yourself, what’s a lop and well I will tell you. Lop stands for “Live Online Portal” and is a group of spyware and hijacker programs that set your Internet Explorer start page and search features to use the site lop.com or one of its clone sites. Lop.com is a web site owned by C2 Media. It is mainly a pay-per-click search portal where other web sites pay for each click-through to their site via lop.
Lop.com created a program which is labeled variously as an mp3 search program, a porn search program, or some other such thing. The installer turns the user’s web browser into a device with a seemingly endless supply of links to lop.com. A later version (installer name mp3serch.exe) omits this desktop feature as its bugginess reportedly led to its being discontinued. Both versions install a stripped down browser which uses the Internet Explorer web browser engine.
This browser automatically launches at mp3search.com. The Lop installer also makes dramatic changes to Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Netscape Navigator. The default search engine pages, toolbar settings, and start p age are changed. The lop installer adds scores of Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer’s Favorites folder and in Mozilla’s Bookmarks.htm file. Lop’s are not fun, don’t even be tempted!
- Virtumonde: Adware (General)
- Explorer32.Hijacker: Hijacker
- Zango: Adware (General)
- Hotbar: Toolbar
- Adware.NetAdware.Gen: Toolbar
- Adware.Agent.gen: Adware (General)
- Hyperlinks Rotator: Browser Plug-in
- C2.Lop: Hijacker
- AdWare.Win32.SuperJuan.fsk: Adware (General)
- WhenU.Save: Adware (General)
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