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Adware-Oemji

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
08/01/2005
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
4547 (08/01/2005)
Updated DAT
5114 (09/06/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
08/01/2005
Description Modified
12/08/2005 3:53 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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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 this application install itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for the internet explorer. It adds an internet explorer toolbar name “oemji”.

Privacy :

EULA is displayed on installation.

Installation:

File name: OemjiInstall.exe
MD5Hash: 6a7139ca158f30ea6ff193d5091eb24e

On executing the application some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {5E022A40-7CC4-4EBA-A143-8D5C3B8838DB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {6C90276E-8EC4-4DED-B67D-061E92569E72}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {804DB5C7-31E6-4885-850A-F1941B58A4C7}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {AD2069F5-4ECD-48E0-A478-2D0E34D6DC32}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {b2fc70c6-b39a-4d80-ac64-45bbfa82256f}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {D240DC29-C093-4388-B71F-A7103C796B0C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {D8CB10E7-601A-4176-B6B5-CEFA244D4DEA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {EE7FADF9-31DA-49AB-A026-EF9366CEB8B0}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {0CFC2012-205B-4E00-9417-35822237C52C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {675DF755-DF8D-4636-B765-422437004ADB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {E4A5B138-6BE5-4A0D-A5C3-D2DE4A62EBDC}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Noah.RegistrationObj
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OemjiSearchPlus.IEFriendly
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PBHelper.PBlockadeHelper
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PBHelper.PBToolbarHoster
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {0AC17D72-80F3-4F79-BFCC-9A779BA70334}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {1AC40F65-20FE-439A-B6DE-905DBB2004E2}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {828BC5D5-9C49-4DFD-B3C5-0436707DF5B3}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {AEF5EB3E-0739-4A12-83F3-77249D80F63F}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {B0DDF13B-2D10-472D-B409-F10476E9A12A}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {BE7B3ED5-DD42-43AD-A444-DD08F3E45621}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {4115122B-85FF-4DD3-9515-F075BEDE5EB5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {D240DC29-C093-4388-B71F-A7103C796B0C}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Oemji Toolbar
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oemji
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oemji\Uninstall

Following folders are added :

  • c:\Program Files\Common Files\Oem Common
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\OemjiSearchPlus
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\Toolbar
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\Toolbar\PopupBlocker


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.

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 this application install itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for the internet explorer. It adds an internet explorer toolbar name “oemji”.

Privacy :

EULA is displayed on installation.

Installation:

File name: OemjiInstall.exe
MD5Hash: 6a7139ca158f30ea6ff193d5091eb24e

On executing the application some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {5E022A40-7CC4-4EBA-A143-8D5C3B8838DB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {6C90276E-8EC4-4DED-B67D-061E92569E72}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {804DB5C7-31E6-4885-850A-F1941B58A4C7}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {AD2069F5-4ECD-48E0-A478-2D0E34D6DC32}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {b2fc70c6-b39a-4d80-ac64-45bbfa82256f}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {D240DC29-C093-4388-B71F-A7103C796B0C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {D8CB10E7-601A-4176-B6B5-CEFA244D4DEA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {EE7FADF9-31DA-49AB-A026-EF9366CEB8B0}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {0CFC2012-205B-4E00-9417-35822237C52C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {675DF755-DF8D-4636-B765-422437004ADB}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {E4A5B138-6BE5-4A0D-A5C3-D2DE4A62EBDC}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Noah.RegistrationObj
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OemjiSearchPlus.IEFriendly
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PBHelper.PBlockadeHelper
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PBHelper.PBToolbarHoster
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {0AC17D72-80F3-4F79-BFCC-9A779BA70334}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {1AC40F65-20FE-439A-B6DE-905DBB2004E2}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {828BC5D5-9C49-4DFD-B3C5-0436707DF5B3}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {AEF5EB3E-0739-4A12-83F3-77249D80F63F}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {B0DDF13B-2D10-472D-B409-F10476E9A12A}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {BE7B3ED5-DD42-43AD-A444-DD08F3E45621}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {4115122B-85FF-4DD3-9515-F075BEDE5EB5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {D240DC29-C093-4388-B71F-A7103C796B0C}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Oemji Toolbar
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oemji
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Oemji\Uninstall

Following folders are added :

  • c:\Program Files\Common Files\Oem Common
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\OemjiSearchPlus
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\Toolbar
  • c:\Program Files\Oemji\Toolbar\PopupBlocker


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