Web Protect License

Web Protect License

Known Toolbar

by Montiera Technologies LTD

What is Web Protect License?

Web Protect License is software application developed by Montiera Technologies LTD. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 80.00% of installations running this operating system. Web Protect License's installer is typically 853.00 KB in size and installs around 3 files.

Web Protect License is most popular in the United States with 100.00% of installations residing in this country.

Web Protect License adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Web Protect License?

WebProtect is a software program that may alter the user's default home page and search engine provider in the web browser. The program aims to generate search revenues while also collecting data on the user's searching and web browsing behaviors. This information includes the user's search terms, visited web pages, and accessed domains, which is then reported to a remote server at reports.montiera.com. Additionally, in Internet Explorer, WebProtect adds a Zone mapping to avoid IE blocking its requests and can disable any installed proxy server. It also connects to cnfg.toolbarservices.com through a scheduled task named Web Protect License, triggering the action C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\webprotect\webprotect\1.3.11.0\webprotect.exe\"" /sc minute /mo 10.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Web Protect License.

webprotect.exe (MD5: d6cce6da966ae5860f6fdd099ca5fd12) has been flagged by 17 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Antiy-AVL RiskWare[WebToolbar:not-a-virus]/Win32.Montiera
AVG Montiera
AVware Montiera (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.Montiera.aZ
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.Q
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/Montiera
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:Downloader.Montiera
K7 AntiVirus Trojan
K7GW Trojan ( 004a07831 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Montiera
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Montiera.j.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PayByAds.A
McAfee Artemis!D6CCE6DA966A
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis
Sophos PayByAds
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0811
VIPRE Antivirus Montiera (fs)

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • webprotect.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Web Protect License' (Next runs on 8/29/2014 at 7:35 AM).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • webprotect.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'webprotect' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\webprotect\webprotect\1.3.11.0\webprotect.exe.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\webprotect\webprotect\1.3.11.0
Uninstaller:
"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\webprotect\webprotect\1.3.11.0\webprotect.exe" /uninstl
Size:
853.00 KB
Language:
English

Web Protect License Executable Details

Primary executable:
webprotect.exe
Name:
Web Protect License
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\webprotect\webprotect\1.3.11.0\webprotect.exe
MD5:
d6cce6da966ae5860f6fdd099ca5fd12
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Web Protect License
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
43370e4009151de972bd00f790b6ca2a
DLL
a5eef3d2fe75a8a8d97cd4418ebc1365
EXE
d6cce6da966ae5860f6fdd099ca5fd12