Adware.Fastwebfinder

Behavior

Adware.Fastwebfinder hijacks the Internet Explorer Home Page, Search Bar, and Search Assistant, and adds links to your Favorites.

Symptoms

The Internet Explorer Home Page changes to an undesired Web page each time you start Internet Explorer.

• Your firewall program alerts on the file ld.exe when it tries to access the Web page www.fastwebfinder.com.

Transmission

Adware.Fastwebfinder is installed by going to www.fastwebfinder.com or to another Web site, or when you install certain programs.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version November 18, 2003
• Latest Rapid Release version June 14, 2008 revision 017
• Initial Daily Certified version November 18, 2003
• Latest Daily Certified version July 24, 2008 revision 024
• Initial Weekly Certified release date November 19, 2003

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