Content
DeepDive
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Win32
- Discovery Date
- 06/30/2005
- Length
- Minimum DAT
- 4525 (06/30/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 5430 (11/10/2008)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 06/30/2005
- Description Modified
- 07/14/2008 8:17 PM (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. This is a detection for an IE Browser Helper Object .
This kind of application generally comes bundled with another program, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.
Browser Helper Objects are dlls that IE loads when starting up. They can perform various task, such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.
System Changes:
File name : helper.dll
MD5 : 457519a87acb0c472ee3b8a5f90f33d8
Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.
Add the following registry keys :
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\main.DLL
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{A0E1054B-01EE-4D57-A059-4D99F339709F}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{986A8AC1-AB4D-4F41-9068-4B01C0197867}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{8E3C68CD-F500-4A2A-8CB9-132BB38C3573}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\main.BHO
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\main.BHO.1
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
Symptoms
Method of Infection
Variants
Variants
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All Information
Overview -
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. This is a detection for an IE Browser Helper Object .
This kind of application generally comes bundled with another program, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.
Browser Helper Objects are dlls that IE loads when starting up. They can perform various task, such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.
System Changes:
File name : helper.dll
MD5 : 457519a87acb0c472ee3b8a5f90f33d8
Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.
Add the following registry keys :
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\main.DLL
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\{A0E1054B-01EE-4D57-A059-4D99F339709F}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{986A8AC1-AB4D-4F41-9068-4B01C0197867}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{8E3C68CD-F500-4A2A-8CB9-132BB38C3573}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\main.BHO
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\main.BHO.1
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{AFD4AD01-58C1-47DB-A404-FBE00A6C5486}
Symptoms
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Method of Infection
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Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs
Variants
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N/A
