Content

Adware-BHO.gen.c

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
10/16/2006
Length
Minimum DAT
4874 (10/16/2006)
Updated DAT
5399 (10/06/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
10/16/2006
Description Modified
07/03/2008 2:38 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) Avert(R) 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 a Trojan. It is a Potentially Unwanted Program.

This detection is for "dll" files.

On registering the dll file, it adds the following registry keys.

  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\InprocServer32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\ProgID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\Programmable
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\VersionIndependentProgID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\ProxyStubClsid
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\ProxyStubClsid32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\TypeLib
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash\CurVer
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash.1
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash.1\CLSID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\0
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\0\win32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\FLAGS
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\HELPDIR
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon\Capabilities
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon2
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon2\Capabilities

It adds the following registry entry to register itself as a BHO.

  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}

Upon launching "Internet Explorer", this program connects to the following website and downloads a configuration file containing a list of other websites.

  • http://ct.kkwyx.com

This program may display ads while browsing certain websites.

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

Aliases

  • AdWare.Win32.Pwfsh.a (Rising)
  • not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BHO.vs (Kaspersky)
  • trojan:win32/kentgo (Microsoft)

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) Avert(R) 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 a Trojan. It is a Potentially Unwanted Program.

This detection is for "dll" files.

On registering the dll file, it adds the following registry keys.

  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\InprocServer32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\ProgID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\Programmable
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}\VersionIndependentProgID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\ProxyStubClsid
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\ProxyStubClsid32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{5ECDAA08-B706-41C6-8F09-C69D1C45C66A}\TypeLib
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash\CurVer
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash.1
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\PWFlash.PowerFlash.1\CLSID
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\0
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\0\win32
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\FLAGS
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{C3F4AE31-32C0-4D31-A90C-7B774CA8683D}\1.0\HELPDIR
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon\Capabilities
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon2
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maxthon2\Capabilities

It adds the following registry entry to register itself as a BHO.

  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{DC888631-57F5-4AF4-86B3-BDE5F854DCBF}

Upon launching "Internet Explorer", this program connects to the following website and downloads a configuration file containing a list of other websites.

  • http://ct.kkwyx.com

This program may display ads while browsing certain websites.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

    N/A