Adware the series, part 1
Adware the series, part 2
Adware the series, part 3
Adware the series, part 4
June 8, 2017 by Pieter Arntz
In this series of posts, we will be using the flowchart below to follow the process of determining which adware we are dealing with. Our objective is to give you an idea of how many different types of adware are around for Windows systems. Though most are classified as PUPs, you will also see the occasional Trojan or rootkit, especially for the types that are more difficult to detect and remove.
In this part of the series, we will be focusing on cases where the process we found as the one that was showing the advertisement was not the actual culprit. We will demonstrate how to use Process Explorer to see which handles, DLL’s and parent processes are involved. Which is a relatively easy way to figure out what a process is doing.
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