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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.

Aliases

• Adware-Gator

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 trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application. This application generates advertisements while connected to the Internet.

This application comes bundled with many other programs, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.  Users agree to have the Adware installed in the license agreement, although they may not realize at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

Installation
Exact filenames and installation locations may vary from version to version.  This description is simply meant as a guide and is based on the Trickler component distributed by Gator.com.

Upon installation of the program, a registry run key is created to load the program at system startup:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
  Run "Trickler"

Several other registry entries are created:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {21FFB6C0-0DA1-11D5-A9D5-00500413153C}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com

This "Trickler" component is responsible for downloading any updates to this adware application.

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or trojan

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or trojan

Removal

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

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.

Aliases

• Adware-Gator

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.

This is not a virus or trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application. This application generates advertisements while connected to the Internet.

This application comes bundled with many other programs, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported.  Users agree to have the Adware installed in the license agreement, although they may not realize at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

Installation
Exact filenames and installation locations may vary from version to version.  This description is simply meant as a guide and is based on the Trickler component distributed by Gator.com.

Upon installation of the program, a registry run key is created to load the program at system startup:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
  Run "Trickler"

Several other registry entries are created:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
  {21FFB6C0-0DA1-11D5-A9D5-00500413153C}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com

This "Trickler" component is responsible for downloading any updates to this adware application.

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