BraveSentry
Posted: April 28, 2011
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
| Threat Level: | 10/10 |
|---|---|
| Infected PCs: | 81 |
| First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
|---|---|
| Last Seen: | August 13, 2019 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
BraveSentry is a rogue anti spyware program that hijacks the web browser and it is known to issue fake warnings on your computer in order to manipulate you into buying its full commercial version. It can also be installed from the BraveSentry website and has been forced onto the computer without EULA and users knownledge of installation. It does not actually detect parasites, but targets harmless system and software objects as threats in attempt to trick the user into purchasing the full version of BraveSentry. BraveSentry is related to SpySheriff and Spware-no.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:BraveSentry.exe
File name: BraveSentry.exeSize: 474.11 KB (474112 bytes)
MD5: e6c99d11e61356e8d4c96f0ad8c6e8e6
Detection count: 82
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
BraveSentry0.dll
File name: BraveSentry0.dllSize: 57.34 KB (57344 bytes)
MD5: ac153a4f1ff0c34d58a23555dbc66763
Detection count: 51
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
BraveSentry1.dll
File name: BraveSentry1.dllSize: 45.05 KB (45056 bytes)
MD5: dab8f8dda92f5a59aae3346ee28b5ba0
Detection count: 44
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
BraveSentry2.dll
File name: BraveSentry2.dllSize: 36.86 KB (36864 bytes)
MD5: d8ee26f65c440b05fcd9b316f57bc3f5
Detection count: 43
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
BraveSentry3.dll
File name: BraveSentry3.dllSize: 40.96 KB (40960 bytes)
MD5: 6d09c05a4451fa73196e0999fc3117fe
Detection count: 31
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
If you make a copy of taskmgr.exe (c:\windows\system32) with a different name, then run the copy, you can kill hotfix.exe (or any of the other programs) because it's actually looking for, and killing, the process by filename, not by title (and it probably does the same with IE).