What is c.betrad.com?

[Terryh2]

for a couple days now, ive noticed my bitdefender says a phishing attempt from c.betrad.com was attempted, and it blocks it every time, but what is it? ive tried deleting it from my pc but it still pops up randomly on bitdefender. im using chrome. thanks

 

[lite1]

I have same problem. I started support ticket on BD website and suggest you do the same, perhaps they will finally take this seriously and provide some information. I get 30 or 40 events reported daily for last 2 days and while all are blocked it prevents me from looking thru easily and perhaps responding to something that is more of a concern. I'm in USA using Bitdefender Total Security 2015. Google search seems to be somewhat inconclusive, but it does NOT seem like a benign website. It seems to located in Sweden. I am using Firefox and IE as browsers; until recently used Chrome but with their latest update it became nearly completely unresponsive. Probably doesn't matter but I'm Windows 7 64 bit. You indicted you tried to delete it, where did you find it and what names did you delete? I have run Malwarebytes which did NOT report any problem. A search *betrad* on C drive finds nothing.

 

[Terryh2]

I also use BD total security 2015, also windows 7 64 bit. i went to my computer and searched betrad and few things did pop up as results, i swiftly deleted them. Still pops up on my BD though. sometimes like only 2, but sometimes ALOT, like in increments of 10! i thought about trying to use opera on my pc since i love using it on my phone, and to just test out to see if its just a chrome thing, i may do that. I will open a support ticket, thank you for the suggestion. I also immediately ran malwarebytes and nothing popped up for me either. keep me updated if you dont mind, if BD support says anything or you find anything out, thanks!

 

[NerdGirl69]

I'd been investigating as why my galaxy s4 had been performing so poorly as of late, going through the minutiae of the OS, when I stumbled across Site Settings(in chrome), then tapped All Sites, which led me to Storage.There sat c.bertrad. Benign? I think not. Hell no. It was using more memory than everything else combined. Deleted. I've double checked my cookies setting, and will continue to monitor for it, among some other offenders I found. Good luck, I hope this helps!

 

[tman1]

download and run adwcleaner, delete everything it finds. After rebooting, download and run combofix (disable your antivirus while this runs), let that finish.

That should take care of it.

 

[lightning77]

download and run adwcleaner, delete everything it finds. After rebooting, download and run combofix (disable your antivirus while this runs), let that finish.

That should take care of it.

betrad is short for better advertising and it's because of the ad choices stuff. It's not malicious it's actually there to help protect your privacy.

 

[cve60069]

I first encountered c.betrad on a windows XP machine some five years ago. Betrad writes a program to local storage using javascript that basically emulates your browser. I discovered it when I found that iplayer would not load into its own window.

I have checked IOS, linux, XP and 7 using firefox and google and betrad is in local storage. A friend checked his PC's at work and they all had betrad.

My cure in windows 7 using google-chrome, was to create two files using Notepad and to name each the http_c.betrad.com. filenames. I then set the permissions to deny to everyone. Not even the administrator can delete the files. I put these files in my local storage folder and I have never suffered from betrad ever again.

I tried this in firefox but was unsuccessful so I never use firefox.

This week, i noticed in my local storage folder a file called c.betrad.W3snoop. The contents of the file say "google experiment" so hopefully the browser companies are trying to get on top of the problem.

For those using Google-chrome in windows 7, create those files using notepad, put them in the local storage folder and deny c.betrad access to your machine.

It works.

 

[cve60069]

Update to my last message

c.betrad.W3snoop is not a cure but yet another program reading our data.