SO;Booster

SO;Booster

Known Adware

by PremiumSoft

What is SO;Booster?

SO;Booster is software application developed by PremiumSoft. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 81.82% of installations running this operating system. SO;Booster's installer is typically 717.00 KB in size and installs around 1 files. The most common release is 4.3.0.1567 with 10.00% of all installations currently using this version.

SO;Booster is most popular in the United States with 73.42% of installations residing in this country.

About SO;Booster?

This adware integrates itself into the user's web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox, and presents unrelated advertisements on various websites that are not linked to the software or its affiliates. These ads can take the form of banners, video ads, search-related ads, transitional and in-text ads, as well as links. The software is designed to autonomously update itself at regular intervals and communicate with a central server for new instructions, additional ad content, and reports on the user's interactions with the software. It also tracks the domains and web pages visited by the user.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in SO;Booster.

SO;Booster.exe (MD5: 1d283dd3ae2312eee624e8b8c46f6adb) has been flagged by 28 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Agent
Avira AntiVir TR/Downloader.A.988
avast! Win32:Agent-ASOC [Adw]
AVG Downloader.Generic13
Baidu-International Trojan.Win32.Agent.50
Bkav FE W32.SauseiLTAR.Trojan
Commtouch SDK W32/Trojan.IDAE-2984
Comodo Security TrojWare.Win32.TrojanDownloader.Agent.AFD
Dr.Web Trojan.DownLoad3.30962
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/TrojanDownloader.Agent.AFD
Fortinet FortiGate W32/Agent.AFD!tr.dldr
G Data Win32.Trojan-Downloader.Agent.AU
IKARUS anti.virus Win32.SuspectCrc
K7 AntiVirus Trojan-Downloader
K7GW Trojan-Downloader ( 0048ec4f1 )
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MultiPlug.A
McAfee RDN/Downloader.a!oi
McAfee-GW-Edition RDN/Downloader.a!oi
NANO AntiVirus Trojan.Win32.Agent.cojdgu
Norman Suspicious_Gen4.FKQEC
Panda Antivirus Trj/Genetic.gen
Sophos Troj/Agent-AFFX
Symantec Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro TROJ_SPNR.29L213
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_SPNR.29L213
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.S.Agent.729600.B

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • SO;Booster.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named SW_Booster-S-2021471501.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\ProgramData\application fields software\so;booster
Uninstaller:
"C:\ProgramData\application fields software\so;booster\so;booster.exe" /uninstall
Size:
717.00 KB
Language:
English

SO;Booster Executable Details

Primary executable:
SO;Booster.exe
Name:
SO;Booster
Path:
C:\ProgramData\application fields software\so;booster\SO;Booster.exe
MD5:
1d283dd3ae2312eee624e8b8c46f6adb
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by SO;Booster
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
1d283dd3ae2312eee624e8b8c46f6adb