Content
Adware-BHO.gen
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 10/10/2003
- Length
- Varies
- Minimum DAT
- 4298 (10/15/2003)
- Updated DAT
- 5829 (12/11/2009)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 12/17/2003
- Description Modified
- 01/29/2006 9:56 PM (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.
This is not a virus or trojan. This is a generic detection for various IE Browser Helper Object Adware.
This kind of application generally comes bundled with another program, 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 realise at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.
Browser Helper Objects are dlls that IE loads when starting up. They can perform various task, such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.
Users who would like to check for the presence of potentially unwanted programs on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
Please note that VirusScan 7, and higher, has an option that enables users to detect this kind of program automatically (see below).
Symptoms
N/A This is not a virus or trojan
Method of Infection
N/A This is not a virus or trojan
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.
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. This is a generic detection for various IE Browser Helper Object Adware.
This kind of application generally comes bundled with another program, 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 realise at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.
Browser Helper Objects are dlls that IE loads when starting up. They can perform various task, such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.
Users who would like to check for the presence of potentially unwanted programs on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
Please note that VirusScan 7, and higher, has an option that enables users to detect this kind of program automatically (see below).
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
