PrivDog

PrivDog

Known Generic

by Adtrustmedia, LLC

What is PrivDog?

PrivDog is software application developed by Adtrustmedia, LLC. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 58.15% of installations running this operating system. PrivDog's installer is typically 6.00 MB in size and installs around 37 files. The most common release is 1.8.0.15 with 34.08% of all installations currently using this version.

PrivDog is most popular in the United States with 40.75% of installations residing in this country.

About PrivDog?

The software features a "Trusted Advertisements" function that is designed to display advertisements from a trusted source in areas of webpages where ads are normally blocked on the user's computer. Additionally, the "Trusted Advertisements" feature overlays search result ads with advertisements from a trusted source in the form of an overlay window. This window is identified by a disclosure of "AT-M Ad" in the top left or right section. To view other ads beneath the overlay window and close it, users can click the "See Non AT-M Ad" link present on the window. Users who opt to receive "Trusted Advertisements" with the software provide explicit permission to AdTrustMedia to send advertisements solely from AdTrustMedia and its affiliates. If users do not wish to receive ads solely from AdTrustMedia and/or its affiliates, they should not check or install this option. When an advertisement is displayed, a disclosure is shown at the bottom right of the ad, indicated by "AT-M Ad" and an icon.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in PrivDog.

privdogservice.exe (MD5: 69ae87869250365e2ddbf9b96f07e639) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVware AdTrustMedia (fs)
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0121
VIPRE Antivirus AdTrustMedia (fs)

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • privdogservice.exe runs as a service named 'Privacy Content Firewall' (Privacy Content Firewall) "Protects your privacy from unwanted connections to remote tracking computers and services.".

Software Details

URL:
https://privdog.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\adtrustmedia\privdog
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\AdTrustMedia\PrivDog\UninstallTrustedAds.exe"
Size:
6.00 MB
Language:
English

PrivDog Executable Details

Primary executable:
finalizesetup.exe
Name:
PrivDog
Path:
C:\Program Files\adtrustmedia\privdog\finalizesetup.exe
MD5:
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by PrivDog
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
fada98407e43ab559601bb6b192e8e39
DLL
02ee52e45c47362d986d95c57dc2fed0
DLL
091de6eef2b2c4be194936890c30fdc9
DLL
48e575b6e99e8bd53760b56b64505dd9
DLL
bb490571a888ccb5399941290f24e7fb
DLL
1101322e8418f03e8fcee65868f0b0de
EXE
56fbac70c2d334ce489634c1d8847e24
DLL
4841ffcb4147f5e054e196ece7b6b4cb
EXE
06f4ddaa6907b21801b3d3fe1c06e69a
CRX
cdf499bb6bdb4706d36629be02fe7de8