{"id":208,"date":"2014-02-11T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:56","slug":"serialtrunc-adware-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/serialtrunc-adware-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"SerialTrunc Adware Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was testing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\">FreeFixer<\/a> for the v1.09 release and ran into an adware called <strong>SerialTrunc<\/strong>.\u00a0The following screenshot should explain what the software does:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-bundled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-212\" title=\"SerialTrunc may show offers, coupons, etc\" alt=\"SerialTrunc may show offers, coupons, etc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-bundled.png\" width=\"511\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-bundled.png 511w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-bundled-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, it shows ads, coupons, etc. \u00a0Here are some of the detections done by the anti-virus programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK<\/li>\n<li>a variant of Win32\/BrowseFox.F<\/li>\n<li>AdWare.Win32.Agent<\/li>\n<li>Adware\/Agent.jaw<\/li>\n<li>AdWare.Win32.Agent.ahbx<\/li>\n<li>Riskware.Win32.Agent.cqvnby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once installed, you will see an Internet Explorer and a Firefox add-on installed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/feven-serialtrunc-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-209\" title=\"SerialTrunc and Feven extension in Firefox\" alt=\"SerialTrunc and Feven extension in Firefox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/feven-serialtrunc-firefox.png\" width=\"607\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/feven-serialtrunc-firefox.png 607w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/feven-serialtrunc-firefox-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will also see files such as <a href=\"\/library\/file\/SerialTruncbho.dll-110340\/\">SerialTruncBho.dll<\/a> and <a href=\"\/library\/file\/updateSerialTrunc.exe-110662\/\">updateSerialTrunc.exe<\/a> on your filesystem.<\/p>\n<p>Removal is easy, just check the SerialTrunc files for removal in FreeFixer, or use the Add\/Remove programs dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-add-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-211\" title=\"SerialTrunc can be uninstalled from the add\/remove programs dialog\" alt=\"SerialTrunc can be uninstalled from the add\/remove programs dialog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-add-remove.png\" width=\"736\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-add-remove.png 736w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/serialtrunc-add-remove-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you figure out what SerialTrunc is and how to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, how did you get SerialTrunc on your machine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was testing FreeFixer for the v1.09 release and ran into an adware called SerialTrunc.\u00a0The following screenshot should explain what the software does: Basically, it shows ads, coupons, etc. \u00a0Here are some of the detections done by the anti-virus programs: Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK a variant of Win32\/BrowseFox.F AdWare.Win32.Agent Adware\/Agent.jaw AdWare.Win32.Agent.ahbx Riskware.Win32.Agent.cqvnby Once installed, you will see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/serialtrunc-adware-removal-instructions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SerialTrunc Adware Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}