I'm in the IT department at a community college campus and have installed PDF Creator on numerous student access and faculty/staff PCs. Our spyware intervention system, Counterspy, is now marking the PDFCreator browser toolbar (for Internet Explorer only) in the following manner and subsequently deleting the :
Threat: MyBrowserBar
Category: Hijacker
File: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\PDFCREATOR\\BROWSERADDON\\PDFCreator Browser Add On-14_0_170_setup.exe
File: c:\\program files\\pdfforge toolbar\\searchsettings.dll
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\CLASSES\\CLSID\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D} -1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Classes\\CLSID\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D}\\InprocServer32 -1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Classes\\CLSID\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D}\\InprocServer32 1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Classes\\CLSID\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D}\\InprocServer32\\ThreadingModel 1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\software\\microsoft\\internet explorer\\toolbar\\{B922D405-6D13-4A2B-AE89-08A030DA4402} 1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\software\\microsoft\\windows\\currentversion\\explorer\\browser helper objects\\{B922D405-6D13-4A2B-AE89-08A030DA4402} -1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\software\\microsoft\\windows\\currentversion\\explorer\\browser helper objects\\{B922D405-6D13-4A2B-AE89-08A030DA4402} 1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\WINDOWS\\CURRENTVERSION\\EXPLORER\\BROWSER HELPER OBJECTS\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D} -1
Registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\software\\microsoft\\windows\\currentversion\\explorer\\browser helper objects\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D} 1
Registry: HKEY_USERS\\S-1-5-21-969291156-1403990781-1640847306-3714\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\INTERNET EXPLORER\\URLSEARCHHOOKS\\{E312764E-7706-43F1-8DAB-FCDD2B1E416D} 1
Folder: C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\PDFCREATOR\\BROWSERADDON
I had previous approval to install PDF Creator for users who needed simple PDF output, but because of this current spyware report, I have been instructed to remove installations from PCs. The version reported above is not the most current, but I can no longer upgrade/update the PDF Creator. A real shame as I've been promoting the use of PDF Creator for a number of years at a high school where I was previously employed.
Anyone else running into this?