BrowserAir

BrowserAir

Known Adware

by Goobzo Ltd.

What is BrowserAir?

BrowserAir is software application developed by Goobzo Ltd.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 70.71% of installations running this operating system. BrowserAir's installer is typically 283.00 MB in size and installs around 27 files. The most common release is 47.0.0.5 with 30.30% of all installations currently using this version.

BrowserAir is most popular in the United States with 66.83% of installations residing in this country.

BrowserAir adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About BrowserAir?

BrowserAir is a potentially unwanted program that can compromise the performance and privacy of your computer. Upon installation, it floods your browser with intrusive pop-up and banner ads, leading to system crashes and decreased performance. Additionally, the ads are distributed through unreliable networks, putting your computer at risk of malware installation. Even more concerning, BrowserAir collects and sends detailed information about your browsing habits to remote ad servers. This includes your location, visited IP addresses, domains, and interests. It is important to remove BrowserAir to protect your computer and personal information.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in BrowserAir.

Updater.exe (MD5: 87ed818a915575f2f9576d94f327ea9b) has been flagged by 29 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.211755
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.CrossRider
Arcabit Trojan.Application.Graftor.D33B2B
avast! Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Crossrider
Avira ADWARE/CrossRider.Gen
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.ShopperPro.A
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.211755
Cyren W32/S-3cb50fc1!Eldorado
Dr.Web Adware.Searcher.2920
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/ShopperPro.A potentially unwanted
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/ShopperPro
F-Prot W32/S-3cb50fc1
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor
G Data Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.211755
IKARUS anti.virus PUA.ShopperPro
K7 AntiVirus Adware
K7GW Adware ( 004b8dec1 )
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.BrowserAir.C
McAfee Artemis!87ED818A9155
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!PUP
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.211755
Panda Antivirus Adware/Goobzo
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos Generic PUA EG (PUA)
Symantec Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R02KC0OH315
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • updater.exe is scheduled as a task named 'IBUpd' (runs daily at 8:00 AM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • Updater.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named BAUpd.
Registry entries:
  • BrowserAir.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'GoogleChromeAutoLaunch_E9D74EC2D6279A198B0C48BFD328BBEC' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe" --no-startup-window.
Registry entries (User):
  • BrowserAir.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Application Restart #0' which loads as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\BrowserAir\Application\BrowserAir.exe --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --restore-last-session httC://www-searching.com/?s=FB5zgutbl0341,f42dc0f0-c4db-4677-b6d5-bf.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\BrowserAir\Application
Uninstaller:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\BrowserAir\Application\Uninstall.exe
Size:
283.00 MB
Language:
English

BrowserAir Executable Details

Primary executable:
Updater.exe
Name:
BrowserAir
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\BrowserAir\Application\Updater.exe
MD5:
87ed818a915575f2f9576d94f327ea9b
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by BrowserAir
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
a3966fb3364b924bdc02697aefeb3a71
DLL
8270d0207484289124a7da252c5bca99
DLL
bad200bf888b8cfcbec620c6a7d59f26
DLL
0ccc3644837d002475ed3920f0c2f686
DLL
1373bd17d0a0c04d8a60d3c272455832
EXE
be575650a0becca94241e8d469bdbc83
EXE
ea789aeff1d6c642f7e65691e780866d