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Adware-TryMedia

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
05/20/2008
Length
Minimum DAT
5299 (05/20/2008)
Updated DAT
5422 (11/02/2008)
Minimum Engine
N/A
Description Added
05/20/2008
Description Modified
06/24/2008 2:38 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.

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program." It is a direct-marketing adware application that redirects home and default search pages, establishes email proxies, and may download and install additional advertising applications/components.

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Characteristics

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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.

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program." It is a direct-marketing adware application that redirects home and default search pages, establishes email proxies, and may download and install additional advertising applications/components.

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