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StatBlaster
Overview
From the vendor:
"Get officially liscensed MLB pitch-by-pitch real time updates from every stadium around the league.
StatBlaster provides live streaming statistics for each fantasy matchup you want tracked either in
one league or across all your leagues.
Whether you play fantasy sports on Yahoo!, ESPN, Sandbox.com, CBSSportsline.com, or any other site, StatBlaster
will track ALL of your fantasy teams and matchups in real time." Source
StatBlaster may be installed without the user's permission by
ISTBar,
RapidBlaster or
Second Thought Adware.
StatBlaster may install third part software, such as Bargain Buddy,
PurityScan, Keen Value,
AdGoblin (AdsInContext),
IEDriver (TurboDownload), SaveNow and
Peper Trojan (Memory Watcher):
"The StatBlaster installer may install, or provide options
to install other 3rd party software that will show advertisments in the form of pop- unders, interstitials, banner ads,
and/ or hyperlinks. A full list of our partners can be found at http://origin.statblaster.com/partners.html StatBlaster
is provided free of charge, requiring no payment from you whatsoever; In exchange, installed with StatBlaster are some small
programs from other companies. We hope that this exchange is agreeable to you, it helps us produce free software! If not,
we apologize for any inconvenience - you may uninstall the bundled software and use StatBlaster for free, as our guest, or
you may uninstall StatBlaster entirely. StatBlaster and the bundled software components are completely separate, and have
their own uninstallers (through Add/Remove Programs)." Source
Classification
Adware
Files
statblaster.exe, UpdateStats.exe
If you have any of the files related to StatBlaster on your system,
please send them
for additional analysis. Generally, I have only analysed a
few versions for each software component listed at this web site. With your help I
will be able to look at both old and more recent versions of the StatBlaster software.
Thank you very much for your time!
Log references
Log 13 Log 18
Log 30 Log 38
Log 48 Log 52
Log 67 Log 73
Log 111
Vendor
statblaster.com
End User License Agreement
2004-03-10
StatBlaster's partner EULA 2004-03-10
Privacy policy
No privacy policy available.
Detection
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner detects StatBlaster.
Bazooka is freeware and detects spyware, adware, foistware, trojan horses, viruses, worms and
other potentially unwanted applications.
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Uninstall procedure
Uninstall StatBlaster from "Add/Remove Programs" in the Windows® Control Panel.
Uninstall StatBlaster with FreeFixer
I'm working on a general purpose tool for removing unwanted software.
The tool is called FreeFixer
and can help you remove unwanted Browser Helper Objects, Internet Explorer toolbars
and software that starts automatically when you reboot your computer, so it can offer some
assistance while uninstalling StatBlaster. The manual removal instructions
listed below will help you to identify what to delete with
FreeFixer.
Read more about FreeFixer.
Manual removal
Please follow the instructions below if you would like to remove StatBlaster manually. Please
notice that you must follow the instructions very carefully and delete everything that is mentioned. In most
cases the removal will fail if one single item is not deleted. If StatBlaster remains on your system
after stepping through the removal instructions, please double-check by stepping through them again.
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Start the registry editor. This is done by clicking Start then Run.
(The Run dialog will appear.) Type regedit and click OK. (The registry editor will open.)
- Browse to the key:
'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run'
- In the right pane, delete the value called 'UpdateStats', if it exists.
- Exit the registry editor.
- Restart your computer.
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Start Windows Explorer and delete:
%ProgramsDir%\Media\Media\
Note: %ProgramsDir% is a variable (?). By default, this is C:\Program Files.
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Contact information for StatBlaster's vendor
In order to provide correct, accurate and updated information about StatBlaster
I encourage the vendor to contact me if any part of this write-up
needs a revision.
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