Content

Adware-4Arcade

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
01/19/2005
Minimum DAT
4420 (01/19/2005)
Updated DAT
4583 (09/16/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
01/19/2005
Description Modified
03/31/2005 5:18 AM (PT)

Tab Navigation

Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT™ 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.

Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan.  It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.
When executed, this application adds a toolbar into the Internet Explorer Browser and makes changes to the browser settings.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name: pbar-install.exe
MD5: 9a3571c3806634cc40f919432cbf16ca

When this application is executed, the following folders are created:

  • C:\Program Files\Pbar
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Data
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Language
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Icons
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Page
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Services

The following are the files that are added:

  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Services\pbardl.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Services\pbarhc.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Services\pbarim.dll
  • C:\Program Files\Pbar\Services\pbarpop.dll

The following are the Registry keys that are added:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
    Explorer\Main\http://pbar.net/PBar/home_page.php?bar_id=
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{CA1D1B05-9C66-11D5-A009-
    000103C1E50B}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CA1D1B05-9C66-11D5-
    A009-000103C1E50B}

Aliases

Aliases

    N/A