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IEAntivirus.gen
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Win32
- Discovery Date
- 08/12/2008
- Minimum DAT
- 5359 (08/12/2008)
- Updated DAT
- 5359 (08/12/2008)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.2.00
- Description Added
- 08/12/2008
- Description Modified
- 08/20/2008 12:19 AM (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.
Overview:
This description is for potentially unwanted program that shows false error messages, misleading spyware scan results, and uses aggressive advertising to persuade the user to purchase it.
Potentially Unwanted Programs are any piece of software which a reasonably security/privacy minded computer user may want to be informed of.
When the main executable is run, it displays the following window:
The program will then run an exaggerated scan on the machine and generate false detection alerts. This is done to persuade the user into purchasing a full version of the software to clean the malware that the program falsely detected.
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