In the realm of adware, .Cpush is mostly annoying, and doesn’t constitute much of a threat to the security of your computer. It will, however, bog down your speed and program performance, much like any other adware program.

This little program will usually come as part of a package along with Content Match Software, AdPush Software, or DVD Solution Software. The way this parasite begins your irritation is that after it installs onto your computer without your knowledge or consent, it integrates itself in your browser as a “Browser Helper Object,†or BHO. This can make it hard to detect, as often a computer will think its just part of the program. The first thing it does is creates a new folder in your Common Files folder named CPUSH, which has three files. Namely they are cpush.dll, cpush0.dll, and Uninst.exe. It then creates a huge list of Registry Keys.

After that, the real fun begins. The first thing it does is it checks back with its home page at  http://update.cpc.sogou.com for updates. If there are, it then downloads them. Once that is done, it hijacks your browser to redirect searches. It also monitors your searches, but that hasn’t as yet proven to be compromising to user privacy. It does allow for more specialized advertisements to be downloaded from  http://ads.sopeng.com/mirror/adid/ for guess what?  Pop up advertising! 

Yep, pop up advertising: The dead giveaway to an adware infection. Just so you know, anytime you get pop ups without your browser’s pop up blocker asking if you want to allow pop ups from a website, dimes to donuts you have adware. Pop ups are probably the aspect of adware that most people are most annoyed with, but they aren’t the worst part of adware by far. They’re only the most visually irritating part.

What is really problematic about adware is what it takes out of your computer’s performance. It ‘vampirizes’ your computer’s running memory in several ways. First of all, the collection of registry keys it creates takes memory to run. The program itself also uses memory. Finally, with all the communication it makes with the website that it gets its advertising from, it saps your bandwidth, which depends on your available memory. With all this activity that you don’t see happening, or even know about, less memory is available to run your usual programs, so they run slower, and may even crash. Also, with the bandwidth being dominated by this activity, your web pages may take longer to load, or may not even load at all.

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