Security company Malwarebytes has reported that Vonteera can control digital certificates on a computer to stop anti-malware packages from finding it and activating. Because of this, Vonteera is being classified as Trojan malware.

Vonteera a well known adware family, came into the limelight in 2013. It creates several jobs in the Windows Task Scheduler. These jobs have been commonly found sometimes open a brand new tab on Web browsers to cater malicious components, and to be geared toward showing advertisements on the infected machine. Vonteera additionally changes the Start menu and taskbar shortcuts for assorted Web browsers.

Now it’s been found that Vonteera may also fool the operating system into believing that digital certificates from security packages are sure. Vonteera has been discovered of controlling a total of 13 certifications from distinct security packages to flag them as “trustworthy” in the Windows certificate store.

In such event, it puts another copy of the certification that is deleted. The certification that is deceitful activates a defence mechanism in Windows operating system User Account Management, and prevents the application – in this case anti-malware packages – from running.

Affected users can avoid Vonteera’s changes to the Windows certification by disabling UAC, though it is not advocated as it impacts the security of system. In the left panel, users will locate Untrusted certifications “>> Certifications. Remove that have an anti-malware seller’s name. One problem with it’s that a user should be quick, as the fraudulent certifications could be reinstated by the malware.

Users may also try using UAC to remove Vonteera using scheduled jobs to avoid it prompts, and removing the blacklisted certificates, the company said. Here is an old site post to direct with that in case you want any helper.
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