Should I remove Optical Surf?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
81% remove it19% keep it
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Reach 0.0014%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
Average installed length: 13.23 days
Versions
Version | Distribution |
2015.02.25.160327 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.24.200328 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.21.072535 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.18.042535 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.17.232537 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.15.112531 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.15.062531 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.14.152527 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.05.112435 |
3.57% |
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2015.02.01.012424 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.30.192428 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.29.232426 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.28.122421 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.19.212344 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.19.062343 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.18.152348 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.15.122345 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.15.072346 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.14.152315 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.13.042301 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.10.162252 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.10.112251 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.10.012300 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.04.142334 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.04.042334 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.03.082329 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.02.122327 |
3.57% |
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2015.01.02.022325 |
3.57% |
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Other programs by Yontoo Technology
Optical Surf
What is Optical Surf?
Yontoo's Optical Surf displays several types of advertising is the web browser such as coupons, price-comparisons and banner ads by injecting them directly in the HTML. From the terms: "One feature of the plugin that may be enabled for you is displaying relevant coupons, deals, and special offers. When you visit a website of a merchant or affiliate store that participates in the coupon program, the plugin is designed to recognize the website to determine whether there are coupons, deals, or special offers available. If there are applicable coupons, deals, or special offers available, it will make all reasonable business efforts to display an alert with the coupons, unless the website has opted out. You may then click on the alert displayed to see all specific coupons, deals, and special offers found as you browse the website. The plugin is an optional application and you can always choose whether to use it or not as part of your browsing experience. You can remove or disable the application at any time. When the plugin recognizes that the end user has visited a partner site it will show all available offers for that partner in a slider visible in the top right hand portion of the browser. Clicking on any of the offers within the slider will result in a redirect that will drop affiliate cookies on to the end user computer and resolve the end user to the advertiser page/offer."
Overview
The most used version is 2015.02.25.160327, with over 98% of all installations currently using this version. It adds a background controller service that is set to automatically run. Delaying the start of this service is possible through the service manager. It adds a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to Internet Explorer. The main program executable is OpticalSurfbho.dll. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days. The software installer includes 17 files and is usually about 499.22 KB (511,198 bytes).
- Possible malware installed by this program
- Loads into the web browser
- Adds a background Windows Service
- Installed as part of a co-bundle
- Generally known to have a low reputation
- The experts agree, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Optical Surf.
OpticalSurfbho.dll (50b880a4693b9980440d8faab59e316b) has been flagged by the following 31 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
Lavasoft Ad-Aware |
663 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.9 |
Agnitum Outpost |
7.1.1 |
Riskware.Agent |
ALYac |
1.0.1.4 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.9 |
AVG |
2016.0.3141 |
BrowseFox.F |
AVware |
1.5.0.21 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
Baidu-International |
4.0.3.15413 |
Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.BO |
Bitdefender |
1.0.20.515 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.9 |
Comodo Security |
21588 |
Application.Win32.BrowseFox.JM |
Cyren |
5.4.16.7 |
W32/S-7bed2e86!Eldorado |
Dr.Web |
9.0.0.0103 |
Trojan.Yontoo.1734 |
Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
8.15.04.13.01 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse |
ESET-NOD32 |
9.11397 |
a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.O potentially unwanted |
Fortinet FortiGate |
4/13/2015 |
Riskware/BrowseFox |
F-Prot |
v6.4.7.1.166 |
W32/S-7bed2e86 |
F-Secure |
11.2015-13-04_2 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse |
G Data |
15.4.25 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse |
K7 AntiVirus |
13.202.15421 |
Trojan |
K7GW |
13.202.15421 |
Trojan ( 0040f9921 ) |
Malwarebytes |
v2015.04.13.01 |
PUP.Optional.OpticalSurf.A |
McAfee |
5600.6797 |
Artemis!50B880A4693B |
MicroWorld-eScan |
16.0.0.309 |
Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.9 |
NANO AntiVirus |
0.30.8.659 |
Trojan.Win32.BPlug.ddwtte |
Panda Antivirus |
15.04.13.01 |
Generic Suspicious |
Qihoo-360 |
1.0.0.1015 |
HEUR/QVM30.1.Malware.Gen |
Sophos |
4.98 |
Generic PUA NH |
Symantec |
4/13/2015 rev. 2 |
Yontoo.C |
Tencent |
1.0.0.1 |
Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.13 |
Trend Micro |
10.465.13 |
TROJ_GEN.R047C0OAG15 |
TrendMicro-HouseCall |
7.2.103 |
TROJ_GEN.R047C0OAG15 |
Vba32 AntiVirus |
3.12.26.3 |
AdWare.Kranet |
VIPRE Antivirus |
38896 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
updateOpticalSurf.exe (807ff6e075ae5acb05955cbca81edb59) has been flagged by the following 15 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
AVG |
15.0.0.4257 |
BrowseFox.BDA |
Avira |
7.11.205.2 |
ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7 |
AVware |
1.5.0.21 |
Adware.BrowseFox |
Baidu-International |
3.5.1.41473 |
Adware.MSIL.BrowseFox.bH |
ESET-NOD32 |
11069 |
a variant of MSIL/BrowseFox.H |
F-Prot |
4.7.1.166 |
W32/S-8f34879e!Eldorado |
K7 AntiVirus |
9.192.14746 |
Adware ( 700000121 ) |
Malwarebytes |
1.75.0.1 |
PUP.Optional.OpticalSurf.A |
McAfee |
6.0.5.614 |
BrowseFox-FTQ |
McAfee-GW-Edition |
v2014.2 |
BrowseFox-FTQ |
Qihoo-360 |
1.0.0.1015 |
Win32/Virus.Adware.708 |
Sophos |
4.98.0 |
Generic PUA AO |
Symantec |
20141.2.0.56 |
Yontoo.C |
TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700.0.1001 |
Suspicious_GEN.F47V0113 |
VIPRE Antivirus |
36962 |
Adware.BrowseFox |
View all 46 all detections
Optical Surf 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: Optical Surf
URL: opticalsurfturf.com/support
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Optical Surf
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Optical Surf\OpticalSurfuninstall.exe
Estimated size: 499.22 KB
Files installed by Optical Surf
Program module: | OpticalSurfbho.dll (Malware detected) |
Name: | Optical Surf |
Path: | C:\Program Files\Optical Surf\OpticalSurfbho.dll |
MD5: | 50b880a4693b9980440d8faab59e316b |
Additional files:
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(Malware detected) OpticalSurfbho.dll - Optical Surf
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OpticalSurfUn.exe
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OpticalSurfUninstall.exe
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updateOpticalSurf.exe
Behaviors exhibited
Internet Explorer BHO
- OpticalSurfBHO.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Optical Surf 1.0.0.7' with the class of {a082f7ff-722a-4d9e-9096-baad9817e88a}.
Service
- updateOpticalSurf.exe runs as a service named 'Update Optical Surf' (Update Optical Surf).
How do I remove Optical Surf?
You can uninstall Optical Surf 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 Optical Surf, 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 Optical Surf.
- 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 Optical Surf 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.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 57%
Win Vista (SP2) 4%
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HOW IT RUNS
Windows Service? Yes
(Installs a service)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 81%
Keep it 19%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 |
57.14% |
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Windows 10 |
32.14% |
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Windows XP |
7.14% |
|
Windows Vista |
3.57% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
Windows 7 Ultimate |
28.57% |
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Windows 8.1 |
17.86% |
|
Windows 7 Professional |
14.29% |
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Windows 7 Home Premium |
14.29% |
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Microsoft Windows XP |
7.14% |
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Windows 8 |
3.57% |
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Geography
26.47% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
26.47% |
IQ |
5.88% |
Hungary |
5.88% |
United Arab Emirates |
2.94% |
Australia |
2.94% |
BI |
2.94% |
GE |
2.94% |
Lithuania |
2.94% |
New Zealand |
2.94% |
Canada |
2.94% |
KE |
2.94% |
NP |
2.94% |
PR |
2.94% |
Thailand |
2.94% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard |
30.77% |
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Acer |
23.08% |
|
Dell |
19.23% |
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Samsung |
7.69% |
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Toshiba |
7.69% |
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Intel |
3.85% |
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Lenovo |
3.85% |
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American Megatrends |
3.85% |
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Common models |
HP 15 Notebook PC |
8.33% |
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TOSHIBA Satellite L870 |
4.17% |
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HP 2000 Notebook PC |
4.17% |
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Gigabyte H81M-HD3 |
4.17% |
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Acer Aspire E1-531 |
4.17% |
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Acer AOD270 |
4.17% |
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About Yontoo Technology
Yontoo, a subsidiary/alias of ad-hijacker Sambreel, is a publisher of ad-supported web browser extensions designed to inject and display advertisements within the browser.
Publisher URL: www.yontoo.com