GrooveDock
Posted: January 31, 2014
Threat Metric
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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.
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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.
Ranking: | 17,018 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 5,839 |
First Seen: | January 31, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | July 22, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
GrooveDock is adware that will fill your web browsers with loads of unrequested commercial materials. The company responsible for the creation of this questionable add-on is called SuperWeb LLC. GrooveDock is not the first suspicious extension made by this software developer. In fact, SuperWeb LLC stands behind dozens of similar ad-supported plugins that serve the same way, including Catered to You, Treasure Track and Maximum Maker. All of these tools may cause the same annoying modifications to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It is worth mentioning that the newly generated pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads by GrooveDock are not some side-function of software, which otherwise helps you. These commercial materials are the only reason for the creation of this adware. As long as you click on the displayed coupons, deals and offers, SuperWeb LLC receives some referral commissions. To make you install GrooveDock, this adware claims it will improve your process of buying products over the Internet. Nevertheless, you have all the necessary reasons to question this statement. The reason to assume the adware will not help you lies in the fact that the majority of sites it leads to may be unreliable. It couldn't be otherwise since the popular e-commerce pages with proven legitimacy don't rely on the services of ad-supported extensions. There are even cases where the commercial materials displayed by adware may lead unsuspecting users to dangerous parts of the web, so you should avoid them. If you cannot recall installing GrooveDock voluntarily, then it undoubtedly entered in a software bundle. If you want to restore the normal ad-free state of your browsers, you should use a credible security application to remove this adware.
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:GrooveDockUninstall.exe
File name: GrooveDockUninstall.exeSize: 240.84 KB (240849 bytes)
MD5: 58b22130e0496d33cf335e276be1c140
Detection count: 91
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 4, 2014
GrooveDock.ico
File name: GrooveDock.icoSize: 1.15 KB (1150 bytes)
MD5: d66fea7d06c52ff6e2c569de18305f42
Detection count: 12
Mime Type: unknown/ico
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 6, 2022
Registry Modifications
CLSID{2859a0e0-fe33-407f-80c2-8bef77bdb439}{C690CCD2-2A9F-4D22-A9F4-B78AF92091F9}{F2779EC2-8DFB-4894-B850-E4665D16AB3B}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\GrooveDockSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{2859A0E0-FE33-407F-80C2-8BEF77BDB439}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateGrooveDock_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\updateGrooveDock_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{2859a0e0-fe33-407f-80c2-8bef77bdb439}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{2859A0E0-FE33-407F-80C2-8BEF77BDB439}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\GrooveDockSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\GrooveDock_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\GrooveDock_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateGrooveDock_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\updateGrooveDock_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\Application\Update GrooveDockSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update GrooveDockSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Application\Update GrooveDockSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update GrooveDock
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