Remove Midnight Oil. Description and removal instructions

 
Title: Midnight Oil

Type: Adware
Severity scale:Midnight Oil severity is 24  (24 / 100)
 
This illegal advertising program belongs to the adware category. It is designed to receive and display relevant commercial advertisements in various pop-ups, web browser windows or toolbars. Midnight Oil can be secretly installed to the system while visiting some insecure web sites. It also may be distributed along with some ad-supported software. The threat alters system or browser configuration, so it could start on every Windows startup and secretly work in background. Midnight Oil violates user privacy and may decrease overall computer performance.


Midnight Oil properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Midnight Oil removal:

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Midnight Oil manual removal:

Kill processes:
[program files]\midnight oil\midnightoil.exe, [program files]\midnight oil\unins000.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{ebbfe288-bdf0-11d2-bbe5-00609419f467}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{ebbfe28a-bdf0-11d2-bbe5-00609419f467}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\interface\{ebbfe27b-bdf0-11d2-bbe5-00609419f467}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\interface\{ebbfe287-bdf0-11d2-bbe5-00609419f467}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\interface\{ebbfe289-bdf0-11d2-bbe5-00609419f467}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\netscape starting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\default server\address
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\default server\port
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\path\0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\1\address
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\1\port
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\2\address
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\2\port
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\3\address
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\3\port
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\4\address
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\software\aureate\advertising\servers\4\port
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.ciestub
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.ciestub.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.ciestub\clsid
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.ciestub\curver
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.netscapestop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.netscapestop.1\clsid
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.netscapestop\clsid
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\stub.netscapestop\curver
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\midnight oil solitaire 3.11_is1\displayname
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\midnight oil solitaire 3.11_is1\uninstallstring
Delete files:
ad468x60.gzf, ad468x60_1.gzf, [common programs]\midnight oil\midnight oil help.lnk, [common programs]\midnight oil\midnight oil.lnk, [common programs]\midnight oil\uninstall midnight oil solitaire.lnk, [common programs]\midnight oil\visit solitaire central.lnk, file_id.diz, midnight oil.txt, midnightoil.txt, [program files]\midnight oil\ad468x60.url, [program files]\midnight oil\ad468x60_1.url, [program files]\midnight oil\midnightoil.cnt, [program files]\midnight oil\midnightoil.exe, [program files]\midnight oil\midnightoil.hlp, [program files]\midnight oil\midnightoil.ini, [program files]\midnight oil\unins000.exe, unins000.dat
Delete directories:
[common programs]\midnight oil [program files]\midnight oil

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Information added: 04/06/05
Information updated: 04/06/05

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