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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

• CWS,Hijacker (CA etrust PestPatrol)

• Startpage.CL (GRISoft)

• Trojan.StartPage (Symantec)

• Trojan.Win32.StartPage.ar (Kaspersky)

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:

Upon execution of this application, the default home page and favorites menu get modified. It also drops shortcuts of pornographic websites on the desktop like

Erotic Guide
Erotic Search
Websearch

Installation:

Filename : movies.exe
MD5  : 9ae90e4b96f1facfb0b0d47b6d396937

Upon installation of the application, the default home page is modified to zango.com which gets redirected to the site freshseek.com.

A screenshot of the modified home page is shown below

The favorites menu is modified as shown below

Symptoms

Modification of default home page and favorites menu

Method of Infection

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

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

• CWS,Hijacker (CA etrust PestPatrol)

• Startpage.CL (GRISoft)

• Trojan.StartPage (Symantec)

• Trojan.Win32.StartPage.ar (Kaspersky)

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.

Summary:

Upon execution of this application, the default home page and favorites menu get modified. It also drops shortcuts of pornographic websites on the desktop like

Erotic Guide
Erotic Search
Websearch

Installation:

Filename : movies.exe
MD5  : 9ae90e4b96f1facfb0b0d47b6d396937

Upon installation of the application, the default home page is modified to zango.com which gets redirected to the site freshseek.com.

A screenshot of the modified home page is shown below

The favorites menu is modified as shown below

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Modification of default home page and favorites menu

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

N/A