Should I remove Equals Sign Preview?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

76% remove it24% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

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How common is it?

Reach 0.0001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0.0.0	100.00%

Equals Sign Preview

Remove Equals Sign Preview

What is Equals Sign Preview?

This is a ConvertAd adware program that runs as a web browser extension or toolbar. Once installed the adware will inject ads within the web browser on most pages. These advertisements are not part of the underlying web page. In some case there will be an attribution of the add that says "Ads by ConvertAd".

Overview

Upon installation and setup, it defines an auto-start registry entry which makes this program run on each Windows boot for all user logins. The main program executable is bnsiB02A.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days.

Possible malware installed by this program
Automatically starts with Windows
Displays unwanted advertisements
The experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Equals Sign Preview.

bnsiB02A.exe (20bc1d1360a3f64d813dc558465f81b0) has been flagged by the following 9 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	537	Application.Generic.1277186
AVG	2016.0.3015	Generic_r
Baidu-International	4.0.3.15816	Adware.Win32.ConvertAd.MW
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1140	Application.Generic.1277186
ESET-NOD32	9.11671	a variant of Win32/Adware.ConvertAd.MW
F-Secure	11.2015-16-08_1	Application.Generic.1277186
G Data	15.8.25	Application.Generic.1277186
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.684	Application.Generic.1277186
Symantec	8/16/2015 rev. 1	WS.Reputation

Program details

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\CA54F0EC-1431203453-E411-A26A-5CB901FA490F

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\CA54F0EC-1431203453-E411-A26A-5CB901FA490F\uninstall.exe"

Files installed by Equals Sign Preview

Program executable:	bnsiB02A.exe (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\Local\CA54F0EC-1431203453-E411-A26A-5CB901FA490F\bnsiB02A.exe
MD5:	20bc1d1360a3f64d813dc558465f81b0

Additional files:

Uninstall.exe
(Malware detected) bnsgDC2F.exe

Behaviors exhibited

Startup File (All Users Run)

bnsgDC2F.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'WinCheck' which loads as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\4EEB6EE1-1431170781-4828-A213-00199985EAEF\bnsgDC2F.exe.

How do I remove Equals Sign Preview?

You can uninstall Equals Sign Preview from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

When you find the program Equals Sign Preview, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Equals Sign Preview.
If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.