General explanation
Type: Adware
Name Adware.Win32.Softncapp
Degree of destruction: high
Prevalence: average
What is adware?
Adware is advertising malware that results in showing ads or appearing multiple banners in your system and encourages you to buy a product or use its services. Programmers of this malware, earn money by using related codes that send notification services to applications to show ads. They are attempts to encourage more people to use their applications, by adding them to android markets.
What is Softncapp malware?
Softncapp adware will annoy the user to show ads and download diverse graphical widgets and also download malware on the victim’s system. This occurs in the system constantly and once every few minutes and does not allow the user to work with the system. The Softncapp adware attempts to have the maximum usage of the system resource and cause the system to fail by downloading too much other malware on the system and executing them.
Function explanation
First, adware tries to download a file with a png extension and in case of a successful download, it will immediately initiate the download of adware, malware, and annoying graphical widgets. The malware files and annoying graphical widgets will not be downloaded if the png file is not downloaded.
How to deal with it and disinfect the system
Padvish antivirus will detect this malware and delete it from your system. To prevent this malware from entering the system, avoid the click on suspicious links, and scan all attached files in your emails. Also, always keep your system and anti-virus up to date.