What is Spyware Striker?

Spyware Striker is software application developed by Ascentive. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 51.35% of installations running this operating system. Spyware Striker's installer is typically 16.00 MB in size and installs around 46 files. The most common release is 7.5.7 with 29.73% of all installations currently using this version.

Spyware Striker is most popular in the United States with 92.06% of installations residing in this country.

Spyware Striker adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Spyware Striker?

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Software Behaviors

Services:

SBAMSvc.exe runs as a service named 'AntiMalware' (SBAMSvc) "Manages your antispyware and antivirus application".

Scheduled tasks:

SpywareStriker.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Spyware Striker Pro_deborah-PC@deborah'.
Launcher.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{55C90102-FFC8-4B86-BF44-640D9FDBB792}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

SpywareStriker.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Spyware Striker Pro@Logon.
SPSDefsUpdater.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Spyware Striker Pro - Definitions Updater@Logon.

Registry entries:

SPSDefsUpdater.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Spyware Striker Pro - Definitions Updater' and executes as C:\Program Files\Ascentive\Spyware Striker\SPSDefsUpdater.exe -m.
SpywareStriker.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Spyware Striker Pro' and executes as C:\Program Files\Ascentive\Spyware Striker\SpywareStriker.exe -m.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.ascentive.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Ascentive\Spyware Striker

Uninstaller:

C:\Program Files\Ascentive\Spyware Striker\Uninstall.exe

Size:

16.00 MB

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