Content
Adware-Zeno
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 05/13/2005
- Length
- N/A
- Minimum DAT
- 4491 (05/13/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 5367 (08/21/2008)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 05/13/2005
- Description Modified
- 02/16/2006 12:57 AM (PT)
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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 Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. Upon execution, it contacts the site zenotecnico.com and also adds a startup entry. While browsing, it contacts various servers such as pbid.zenotecnico.com, v10.xmlsearch.miva.com, ad.yieldmanager.com, red.as-eu.falkag.net, and shows popup ads while browsing the internet, as shown below.
Ads shown always contain line “This offer is brought to you by Zeno and not from website(s) you are visiting. Click here for more info”.
Privacy
No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No privacy policy related to the software could be found.
Installation
File name: qwinksap.exe
MD5Hash: 45181af67cd453ca9cdb7862cfca62ce
Upon executing the application, following files are added in start menu folder
- Zeno.lnk
Following registries are added:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Enhanced Ads by Zeno - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Zeno Search Assistant - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run "BrowserUpdateSched"
Symptoms
N/A This is not a virus or Trojan
Method of Infection
N/A This is not a virus or Trojan
Variants
Variants
N/A
All Information
Overview -
This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.
Aliases
- Adware.Win32.ZenoSearch.l: Kaspersky
- Adware.ZenoSearch: Symantec
Characteristics
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 Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. Upon execution, it contacts the site zenotecnico.com and also adds a startup entry. While browsing, it contacts various servers such as pbid.zenotecnico.com, v10.xmlsearch.miva.com, ad.yieldmanager.com, red.as-eu.falkag.net, and shows popup ads while browsing the internet, as shown below.
Ads shown always contain line “This offer is brought to you by Zeno and not from website(s) you are visiting. Click here for more info”.
Privacy
No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No privacy policy related to the software could be found.
Installation
File name: qwinksap.exe
MD5Hash: 45181af67cd453ca9cdb7862cfca62ce
Upon executing the application, following files are added in start menu folder
- Zeno.lnk
Following registries are added:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Enhanced Ads by Zeno - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Zeno Search Assistant - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run "BrowserUpdateSched"
Symptoms
Symptoms -
N/A This is not a virus or Trojan
Method of Infection
Method of Infection -
N/A This is not a virus or Trojan
Removal -
Removal -
Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs
Variants
Variants -
N/A
