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Adware-eUniverse

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
01/19/2005
Minimum DAT
4300 (10/29/2003)
Updated DAT
4625 (11/10/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/15/2004
Description Modified
03/18/2005 12:40 AM (PT)

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT(tm) 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 a Trojan. It is a direct-marketing adware application. This application changes the default search page of Internet Explorer.


Installation

File:   increwmd.exe
Hash: 9915bbc4e93e17faa7e902cc8909fa0c

Upon execution this application drops the following files

\Program Files\IncrediFind\BHO\BHO.dll
\Program Files\IncrediFind\BHO\tipb.exe

This application installs itself as a Browser Helper Object (BHO) for the Internet Explorer.

It appends the following entry to the "hosts" file and makes a backup of the original file as "hosts.bho"

12.129.205.209    search.netscape.com
 
The following Registry keys are added:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BHO.eUnivBHO\CLSID
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BHO.eUnivBHO\CurVer
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BHO.eUnivBHO.1\CLSID
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{269B6797-664E-48AA-B283-B012BDF6E525}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\eUniverse\BHO\HomePage
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\eUniverse\BHO\RedirectURLS
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{269B6797-664E-48AA-B283-B012BDF6E525}

This application redirects the Internet Explorer to “incredifind.com”, whenever an invalid URL is typed in the address bar, thus changing the default search page.

Also, whenever a word is typed in the address bar the Internet Explorer is redirected to “sirsearch.com”.


Aliases

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