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Overview

Characteristics

McAfee(R) Avert™ Labs recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application.If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software.Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This is not a virus or trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application. This application generates advertisements while connected to the Internet.

This application comes bundled with many other programs, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.  Users agree to have the application installed in the license agreement, although they may not realize at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

Installation

Upon execution, the following behavior was seen:

• Creates UDP connection via port 1045
• Installs a toolbar on the web browser
• Creates registry entries
• Drops configuration files on the local computer

The following Registry key(s) is/are added to hook system startup:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "redll321.exe" = "1"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "redll321.exe" = "1"

Users who would like to check for the presence of potentially unwanted programs on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
Please note that VirusScan 7, and higher, has an option that enables users to detect this kind of program automatically (see below).

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Removal

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

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Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) Avert™ Labs recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application.If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software.Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This is not a virus or trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application. This application generates advertisements while connected to the Internet.

This application comes bundled with many other programs, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.  Users agree to have the application installed in the license agreement, although they may not realize at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

Installation

Upon execution, the following behavior was seen:

• Creates UDP connection via port 1045
• Installs a toolbar on the web browser
• Creates registry entries
• Drops configuration files on the local computer

The following Registry key(s) is/are added to hook system startup:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "redll321.exe" = "1"

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "redll321.exe" = "1"

Users who would like to check for the presence of potentially unwanted programs on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
Please note that VirusScan 7, and higher, has an option that enables users to detect this kind of program automatically (see below).

Symptoms

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Method of Infection

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Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

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N/A