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ClickTheButton

Overview

Summary

 ClickTheButton is described as a price comparison service. It detects when you are visitng a known shopping site and provides sponsored links to competitor sites. It runs as a process on startup (ctbclick.exe) and installs a number of extra DLLs.

Category

 Adware: Software that displays popup/popunder ads when the primary user interface is not visible or which do not appear to be assocaited with the product.

 

Origins

 

Group

 ClickTheButton

URL

 http://ClickTheButton.com(site is down)

Date of Origin

 December, 2002
 

Detection and Removal

Manual Removal

 

Open the Task Manager, and kill the 'ctbclick' process. Delete 'CTB3_Shared' from the Windows directory. Delete 'CTBHooks.dll' from the System directory (WINDOWS\SYSTEM or WINNT\System32). Load regedit and delete the value HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ClickTheButton.

If you like, you can also remove the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\CTB_BrandedClient, and every class in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that begins with 'CtbClient', 'CtbSession', 'CtbShopper' or 'CtbXML'. There are a lot.


 

Clean Registry:

Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:



 
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