IE Accelerator 2.26

Last Updated on Monday, 10 September 2012 15:30 Saturday, 01 January 2011 17:30

Harmful - Clones

The program name "IE Accelerator 2.26" has appeared in a virus analysis report.  You can see it on this link

This program seems to be legitimate and is available for download on several trusted sites. However in this case, there seems to be a maliciously modified installer of this program that also adds several files of Trojan Bifrost.  The trojan folder and the files is C:\Program Files\Bifrost\hide my ip.exe
Be careful not to download files from unsafe / unverified sites.

Files
%AppData%\addons.dat
%DesktopDir%\IE Accelerator 2.26.lnk
%Programs%\IE Accelerator 2.26\IE Accelerator 2.26.lnk
%Programs%\IE Accelerator 2.26\Uninstall.lnk
%Programs%\IE Accelerator 2.26\User's Manual.lnk
C:\Program Files\Bifrost\hide my ip.exe
C:\Program Files\Bifrost\logg.dat
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\Ieacc.hlp
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\IEAccelerator.exe
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\INSTALL.LOG
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\RegKey.exe
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\Uninstal.exe
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\UNWISE.EXE
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator\UNWISE.INI

Folders
%Programs%\IE Accelerator 2.26
C:\Program Files\Bifrost
C:\Program Files\IE Accelerator

(Full path for the short folder names)

There may be more files created by this virus program. You can find them out. First locate and note down the "date of creation" of any of the files mentioned above, and after that, search the hard disk for other files created on that date or onward. See image

Necessary steps required to remove this virus program

• To remove processes created by the virus program from the Task Manager
• To search and delete files created by the virus program from the hard disk. Enable to view "hidden files and folders" before you search. Otherwise files created by the virus program inside the hidden folders will not be found
• To remove obsolete registry keys using CCleaner