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Adware-VirtualGirl

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
03/29/2005
Minimum DAT
4313 (01/07/2004)
Updated DAT
4727 (03/27/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/15/2004
Description Modified
03/24/2006 10:51 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.

Distribution

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as an adware application that generates intermittent pop-up advertisements.

This application displays a license agreement when installed. The agreement covers licensing/usage obligations and restrictions, but does explicitly not call out that promotional popups will be generated. The full text of the license agreement can be accessed on the author's website at http://www.virtuagirl2.com.

Privacy

A privacy policy is not displayed during installation. However a policy can be accessed on the author's website at http://www.virtuagirl2.com.

System Changes

General defaults for typical path variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

"*" - Denotes files that, though installed along with the software, are by themselves innocent and not included in detection.

Files Added

  • Installer: virtuagirl2.exe (7758 KB)
    MD5: 11E8599C5DB2706D99382431184FBE0C
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\windowsex.dll (22 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\windows.dll (33 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\virtuagirl2.exe (2060 KB)
    MD5: D632DA731537E59018DB3113A1780BFD
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\vg2.dat (1668 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\vg1.dat (123 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\update.dll (42 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\upd.exe (64 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\unwise.exe (146 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\system.dll (48 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\samples.dat (244 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\network.dll (19 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\music.dll (104 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\msvcr70.dll* (336 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\license_us.txt (15 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\license_it.txt (16 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\license_fr.txt (15 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\license_de.txt (15 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\latest_version.txt (11 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\install.log (15 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\freesamples.dll (19 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\favoritelinks.dll (10 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\distribution.dll (14 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\bpk.dll (432 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\musics\
    Several subfolders and files are stored here containing music resources
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\models\
    There are many subfolders and files in this folder comprising graphics resources for the software
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\help\
    There are many subfolders and files in this folder comprising graphics resources for the software
  • %ProgramFiles%\vg\favoritelinksvirtuagirl2\ohmygoodies.flk (28 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\windowsex.dll.046 (22 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\windows.dll.076 (33 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\update.dll.068 (42 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\system.dll.090 (48 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\network.dll.064 (19 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\music.dll.025 (104 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\msvcr70.dll.010* (336 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\freesamples.dll.043 (19 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\favoritelinks.dll.069 (10 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\distribution.dll.050 (14 KB)
  • %ProgramFiles%\common files\totem shared\update\bpk.dll.134 (432 KB)
  • c:\documents and settings\(username)\start menu\programs\virtuagirl 2\virtuagirl2.lnk (1 KB)
  • c:\documents and settings\(username)\start menu\programs\virtuagirl 2\uninstall virtuagirl2.lnk (1 KB)
  • c:\documents and settings\(username)\start menu\programs\startup\virtuagirl2.lnk (1 KB)

Registry

The following registry keys are created:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
    \Uninstall\VirtuaGirl 2
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Totem
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Totem\VirtuaGirl
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\InstUf\uf1033
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\InstUf
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Vg.Document
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.VGIRL
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.VGDEMO
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BK3
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BK2
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BK1

Network Impact

Possible overhead in bandwidth due to download of advertising or additional application content.

Aliases

Aliases

    N/A