Hit-Buzz
from Revizer Technologies
What is Hit-Buzz?
Hit-Buzz is a potentially unwanted adware program that injects ads into the user's browser. This includes inserting into web pages or displaying ads over parts of existing web page advertisements, banners, coupons or text links that would not otherwise appear. It will communicate with the adware's servers to check for new offers and the placement of offers as well as monitoring and recording the domain name of each page the user views, the advertisements that appear on these pages and the ads the user clicks on.
From the Terms: "Applications may modify or disable features or functionality of Other Applications or Other Applications’ shortcuts. This includes, but is not limited to, modifying Other Applications’ shortcuts so that they are started in a modified state or so that they start similar or nearly identical applications with modified or enhanced functionality."
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Overview
- Malware detected in the program
- Automatically starts with Windows
- Integrates into the web browser
- Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
- Injects advertisements unassociated with the underlying web page
- The experts agree, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Hit-Buzz.
z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe (9534b489a31666ca64ccfa3b964a51fb) has been flagged by the following 14 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
Lavasoft Ad-Aware |
807 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
AegisLab |
1.5 |
AdWare.MSIL.DomaIQ |
Agnitum Outpost |
7.1.1 |
PUA.AddLyrics |
Antiy-AVL |
1.0.0.1 |
Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric |
AVG |
2015.0.3285 |
Generic5 |
AVware |
1.5.0.21 |
Revizer (fs) |
Bitdefender |
1.0.20.1620 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
8.14.11.20.02 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
ESET-NOD32 |
8.10563 |
a variant of Win32/AdWare.AddLyrics.BQ |
F-Secure |
11.2014-20-11_5 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
G Data |
14.11.24 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
Malwarebytes |
v2014.11.20.02 |
PUP.Optional.Graftor |
MicroWorld-eScan |
15.0.0.972 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.AddLyrics.18 |
VIPRE Antivirus |
33924 |
Revizer (fs) |
178.dll (510589a992faaf40e716860671beee72) has been flagged by the following 22 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
Lavasoft Ad-Aware |
12.0.163.0 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 |
Agnitum Outpost |
5.5.1.3 |
PUA.AddLyrics! |
avast! |
8.0.1489.320 |
Win32:Adware-gen [Adw] |
AVG |
14.0.0.4015 |
Generic_r.SI |
Avira |
7.11.171.118 |
TR/Zusy.xynynabr |
AVware |
1.5.0.16 |
Revizer.b (fs) |
Bitdefender |
7.2 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 |
Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
3.0.0.600 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 (B) |
ESET-NOD32 |
10391 |
a variant of Win32/AdWare.AddLyrics.BM |
F-Secure |
11.0.19100.45 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 |
G Data |
24 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 |
McAfee |
6.0.4.564 |
Artemis!510589A992FA |
McAfee-GW-Edition |
v2014.2 |
BehavesLike.Win32.BadFile.dh |
MicroWorld-eScan |
12.0.250.0 |
Gen:Variant.Zusy.103904 |
NANO AntiVirus |
0.28.2.61942 |
Trojan.Win32.Zusy.deokuw |
Panda Antivirus |
10.0.3.5 |
Trj/Genetic.gen |
Qihoo-360 |
1.0.0.1015 |
Win32/Trojan.6f4 |
Sophos |
4.98.0 |
Generic PUA FG |
Symantec |
20141.1.0.330 |
Trojan.Gen.2 |
Trend Micro |
9.740.0.1012 |
TROJ_GEN.R08NC0OI914 |
TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
TROJ_GEN.R08NC0OI914 |
VIPRE Antivirus |
32966 |
Revizer.b (fs) |
View all 36 all detections
Hit-Buzz has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.
Program details
Displayed publisher: Hit-Buzz-software
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\ver7hit-buzz
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\ver7Hit-Buzz\Uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 3.7 MB
Files installed by Hit-Buzz
Program executable: | z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe (Malware detected) |
Path: | C:\Program Files\ver7hit-buzz\z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe |
MD5: | 9534b489a31666ca64ccfa3b964a51fb |
Additional files:
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(Malware detected) 178.dll
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178.xpi
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178_x64.dll
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Uninstall.exe
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z4Hit-Buzzi70.dll
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(Malware detected) z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe
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Sqlite3.dll
Behaviors exhibited
Internet Explorer BHO
- 178.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Hit-Buzz' with the class of {322A90C6-6636-166A-2EEB-E5F63AFE4440}.
Scheduled Task
- z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Hit-Buzz Update' (runs daily at 13:35).
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
- z4Hit-Buzzi70.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Hit-Buzz Update.
How do I remove Hit-Buzz?
You can uninstall Hit-Buzz 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 Hit-Buzz, 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 Hit-Buzz.
- 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.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Hit-Buzz you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
- The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.
Mozilla Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
- To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
- When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
- Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
- When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
- Restart Google Chrome.
HOW IT STARTS
Scheduled task? Yes
(Runs on Windows boot)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 80%
Keep it 20%
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MOST USED OS
~99%
Windows 10
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Geography
83.33% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
83.33% |
United Kingdom |
16.67% |