Zeropopupbar

Overview

Zeropopupbar, also known as Tellafriend.Trojan and Tellafriend, changes your Home and Search Page. From the EULA: "Each time you run the SOFTWARE PRODUCT you agree to have your IE search page and/or HomePage set to our search engine, for the purpose of performing a web search."

Some versions has been reported to automatically send emails to all contacts in the Windows Address Book and Eudora Address Book [1] [2].

Classification

Trojan Horse Adware

Variants

ZeroPopUpBar  ZeroPopUpBar.zp 

Files

zeropopupbar.dll

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Vendor

zeropopup.com

Privacy policy

No privacy policy available.

Detection

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Uninstall Zeropopupbar 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 Zeropopupbar. The manual removal instructions listed below will help you to identify what to delete with FreeFixer.

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Manual removal

Please follow the instructions below if you would like to remove Zeropopupbar 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 Zeropopupbar remains on your system after stepping through the removal instructions, please double-check by stepping through them again.

1. 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.)
2. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {72A58725-2635-4725-8C53-676DFD1FEB8D}', if it exists.
3. Browse to the key:
   'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar'
4. In the right pane, delete the value called {72A58725-2635-4725-8C53-676DFD1FEB8D}, if it exists.
5. Browse to the key:
   'HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Toolbar \ WebBrowser'
6. In the right pane, delete the value called {72A58725-2635-4725-8C53-676DFD1FEB8D}, if it exists.
7. Exit the registry editor.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start Windows Explorer and delete:
   %SystemDir%\zeropopupbar.dll
   Note: %SystemDir% is a variable (?). By default, this is C:\Windows\System (Windows 95/98/Me), C:\WINNT\System32 (Windows NT/2000), or C:\Windows\System32 (Windows XP).

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