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Overview

McAfee® Avert® Labs 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 to using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.aspx for a list of program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.aspx for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude the detection of legitimately installed programs.

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

Characteristics

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

File Property	Property Value
File Name	36e42~1.exe
McAfee Detection	Generic PUP.x
Length	30,208 bytes
CRC32	EF111FD0
MD5	FEB06F45C74F50FB5AC7EBBFF54BC0A1
SHA1	12B00D2D58769F9773E3777516A6F7F321996630

Other Common Detection Aliases

Company Name	Detection Name
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}
Avira	HEUR/Crypted
Dr.Web	Trojan.Fakealert.961
FortiNet	Misc/FakeAle
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.WinAntiVirus.x
Microsoft	program:win32/fakealert.n
Norman	w32/winfixer.bxu
Sophos	Mal/FakeAle-A
Trend Micro	PAK_Generic.001
Vet (Computer Associates)	Win32/Trepolats

Avert® Labs has observed the following system activities:

Activity	Risk Level
Modifies Memory of Other Processes	High
Creates Registry Keys and Data values persistent on OS Reboot	Low
Enumerates open windows	Low
Writes Executable in the Windows Folder	Low

System Changes

These are general defaults for typical path variables. (Although they may differ, these examples are common.):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP/Vista), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM (Windows 98/ME), \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows XP/Vista), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

The following files have been added to the system:

%WINDIR%\sys15.exe

The following registry elements have been changed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\

• sys15.exe = c:\windows\sys15.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\

• sys15.exe = c:\windows\sys15.exe

Symptoms

This symptoms of this detection are the files, registry, and network communication referenced in the characteristics section.

Method of Infection

This is not a virus or Trojan. PUPs do not "infect" systems. They may be installed by a user individually or possibly as a part of a software package (in a bundle, for example).

Removal

AVERT recommends to always use latest DATs and engine. This threat will be cleaned if you have this combination.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

McAfee® Avert® Labs 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 to using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.aspx for a list of program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.aspx for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude the detection of legitimately installed programs.

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This software is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program" (PUP). PUPs are any piece of software that a reasonably security- or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of and, in some cases, remove. PUPs are often made by a legitimate corporate entity for some beneficial purpose, but they alter the security state of the computer on which they are installed, or the privacy posture of the user of the system, such that most users will want to be aware of them.

File Property	Property Value
File Name	36e42~1.exe
McAfee Detection	Generic PUP.x
Length	30,208 bytes
CRC32	EF111FD0
MD5	FEB06F45C74F50FB5AC7EBBFF54BC0A1
SHA1	12B00D2D58769F9773E3777516A6F7F321996630

Other Common Detection Aliases

Company Name	Detection Name
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}
Avira	HEUR/Crypted
Dr.Web	Trojan.Fakealert.961
FortiNet	Misc/FakeAle
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.WinAntiVirus.x
Microsoft	program:win32/fakealert.n
Norman	w32/winfixer.bxu
Sophos	Mal/FakeAle-A
Trend Micro	PAK_Generic.001
Vet (Computer Associates)	Win32/Trepolats

Avert® Labs has observed the following system activities:

Activity	Risk Level
Modifies Memory of Other Processes	High
Creates Registry Keys and Data values persistent on OS Reboot	Low
Enumerates open windows	Low
Writes Executable in the Windows Folder	Low

System Changes

These are general defaults for typical path variables. (Although they may differ, these examples are common.):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP/Vista), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM (Windows 98/ME), \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows XP/Vista), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

The following files have been added to the system:

%WINDIR%\sys15.exe

The following registry elements have been changed:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\

• sys15.exe = c:\windows\sys15.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\

• sys15.exe = c:\windows\sys15.exe

Symptoms

Symptoms -

This symptoms of this detection are the files, registry, and network communication referenced in the characteristics section.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

This is not a virus or Trojan. PUPs do not "infect" systems. They may be installed by a user individually or possibly as a part of a software package (in a bundle, for example).

Removal -

Removal -

AVERT recommends to always use latest DATs and engine. This threat will be cleaned if you have this combination.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants -

N/A