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Adware:Win32/SideSearch.A
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Win32/Adware.Sidebar (ESET) AdWare.AdSpy (other) Virtumonde.YMW (Norman) Trojan.Vundo.B (Symantec)
Summary
Adware:Win32/SideSearch.A is a Web Browser Helper Object (BHO) that inserts "sponsored links" to the left of retrieved search engine results in a search results page.
Adware:Win32/SideSearch may place an uninstaller entry in "Add or Remove Programs" in Control Panel. The entry name may be called "Mysidesearch Search Assistant Bfinding" or similar. If an uninstaller is not available or if you do not want to use the uninstaller that is provided, use Microsoft Windows Defender or another up-to-date scanning and removal tool to detect and remove Adware:Win32/SideSearch and other unwanted software from your computer. For more information, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/computer/default.mspx.
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