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Updated: February 13, 2007 11:41:49 AM Research conducted by security company PC Tools over the past six months looked at malware infections on 1.4 million PCs installed with its ThreatFire software, which detects suspicious behaviour on PCs. Malware samples were tested against several antivirus engines, PC Tools said. Out of every 1,000 Vista machines, 639 were infected by malware at some stage in the past six months, compared with 586 infections for PCs running Windows 2000. However, Microsoft's Windows XP was by far the worst performer with an infection rate of 1,021. Type: Adware Version: 1.004 Risk Impact: Low File Names: toolbar.dll Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Behavior
Adware.ActiveSearch is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object Toolbar. It displays pop-up adverts and may track a user's Internet usage and search results.
Symptoms
One or more files is detected as Adware.ActiveSearch.
Transmission
Adware.ActiveSearch commonly arrives bundled with other programs such as Grokster.
Protection- Initial Rapid Release version December 15, 2004
- Latest Rapid Release version December 15, 2004
- Initial Daily Certified version December 15, 2004
- Latest Daily Certified version December 18, 2007 revision 039
- Initial Weekly Certified release date December 15, 2004
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