Should I remove OCR Plus Sign?

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 0.0002%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0.0.0	100.00%

OCR Plus Sign

Remove OCR Plus Sign

What is OCR Plus Sign?

This is an ad Injector type of malware that is typically bundled with unwanted software offers for legitimate software and once installed is deceptive, difficult to remove as well as impacts the security of the user's computer by displaying intrusive advertisements in the web browser which promote and trick users into installing other unwanted adware or malware. Once installed, it runs as a startup process in the background works by injecting into the browser ads on web pages that either do not normally appear or by replacing existing ads that are part of the existing site with ads from different companies with low quality offerings as well as malware. It works by monitoring and intercepting the user's web browser connections and injecting new content before the browser serve it up. (This is a variant of the CMI/WinCheck family of adware.)

Overview

The main program executable is answ9b75.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days. The software installer includes 3 files and is usually about 2.02 MB (2,116,450 bytes).

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

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in OCR Plus Sign.

answ9b75.exe (6e5ca5afb73c80568c16b56107282da6) has been flagged by the following 14 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	537	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
Baidu-International	4.0.3.15816	Adware.Win32.ConvertAd.JV
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1140	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.15.08.16.06	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
ESET-NOD32	9.11664	a variant of Win32/Adware.ConvertAd.LX
Fortinet FortiGate	8/16/2015	Riskware/ConvertAd
F-Secure	11.2015-16-08_1	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor
G Data	15.8.25	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.6671	BehavesLike.Win32.CryptDoma.th
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.684	Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.188059
SUPERAntiSpyware	9687	Trojan.Agent/Gen-Crypt
Symantec	8/16/2015 rev. 1	WS.Reputation
Tencent	1.0.0.1	Trojan.Win32.YY.Gen.1

View all 14 all detections

Program details

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\667c8a00-1430000176-11e2-a163-089e01cc2b5d

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\667C8A00-1430000176-11E2-A163-089E01CC2B5D\uninstall.exe"

Estimated size: 2.02 MB

Files installed by OCR Plus Sign

Program executable:	answ9b75.exe (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\667c8a00-1430000176-11e2-a163-089e01cc2b5d\answ9b75.exe
MD5:	6e5ca5afb73c80568c16b56107282da6

Additional files:

rnsn9E94.exe
Uninstall.exe

How do I remove OCR Plus Sign?

You can uninstall OCR Plus Sign 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 OCR Plus Sign, 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 OCR Plus Sign.
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.