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
EXE
03d029ecf8db42a142e3e2f53777f76d
SYS
ca0cefe71cf634a4e0e9fed8d21fb1c2
DLL
4f10b1c72839d5db445a545b45c76974
DLL
d636d74e316a85e6e4072b0587576a6e
DLL
36335b3a80c4bbc80a21673bdb356bbb
EXE
8a1ef8775954e4983d7e6f1e474634b9
SYS
fa47c2fb5da15e7f11eb6cab3f013d8f