C2.LOP
Online Advertising
C2.LOP
LOP, or Live Online Portal, is an adware component that is
installed on computers.
Lop.com is a web site owned by C2Media (NOTE:
C2 Media is the name of a totally unrelated company from C2Media LTD which
owns LOP.com). It is a pay-per-click search portal where other websites will
pay for each click to their sites via LOP. This was never a bad idea, but a
method they used to get people to their site was to install an adware component
on people's computers which would advertise their site through pop-ups. The
installer could turn the user's web browser into a device with a links to
lop.com.
Older variants of LOP were quite predictable and installed
Browser Helper Objects and startup entries with known names. Lately, LOP
variants have been using random English words strung together in a phrase as
their executable names and have been placing these executables in the user's
application data directory. For example, there are LOP variants which call their
file "meal dog house bone.exe".
LOP can usually be easily removed using
Ad-Aware and
Spybot S&D (as well as various other spyware removal programs). You may also
ask the support forums below for help on how to remove LOP.
Known programs that bundle LOP
References
External links
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