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Adware-Webone

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
03/29/2005
Minimum DAT
4298 (10/15/2003)
Updated DAT
4742 (04/17/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/15/2004
Description Modified
07/04/2005 8:20 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.

Summary

This is not a virus or trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.  No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

System Changes

File Name : SexCam.exe
Md5 : 7e5a3f50e50dc4899922914960a90bfc

When this application is executed, the following registry key is added

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WebSiteViewer

It keeps popping up the following window while browsing the web.

Clicking on the button “I Accept”, It starts downloading more and more pornographic advertisements.

Network Impact

Additional overhead in bandwidth due to download of advertisements.

Aliases

Aliases

    N/A