Content
Adware-Cantfind
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 06/02/2004
- Length
- N/A
- Minimum DAT
- 4247 (02/12/2003)
- Updated DAT
- 6239 (01/27/2011)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 04/20/2004
- Description Modified
- 12/21/2005 1:30 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 a Trojan. On execution of the application it installs itself without any visible interface and adds a BHO for internet explorer. It hijacks the search page of internet explorer to “cantfind.com”.
Privacy
No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.
System Changes
File Name: “IEBRW.DLL”
MD5Hash: “f163483e9efc6b3b364b28bae3beb84f”
The following registry entries are added:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
{1A98BCA2-0BD1-47DE-9710-C7665F7F1FCB}
Displayname="IEObj Class" - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEBrowserHelper.IEObj
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
{46BF7070-1B2D-4EFF-91C7-0A40167E1893}
Displayname="IIEObj" - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
{4B209BAD-5B93-4ED4-846E-DCDBD4B3F6C7} - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
{1A98BCA2-0BD1-47DE-9710-C7665F7F1FCB}
Symptoms
N/A. Not a virus or trojan.
Method of Infection
N/A. 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.
Aliases
- Generic Adware-Cantfind
- Searchex,Hijacker - CA eTrust
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
This is not a virus or a Trojan. On execution of the application it installs itself without any visible interface and adds a BHO for internet explorer. It hijacks the search page of internet explorer to “cantfind.com”.
Privacy
No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.
System Changes
File Name: “IEBRW.DLL”
MD5Hash: “f163483e9efc6b3b364b28bae3beb84f”
The following registry entries are added:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
{1A98BCA2-0BD1-47DE-9710-C7665F7F1FCB}
Displayname="IEObj Class" - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEBrowserHelper.IEObj
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
{46BF7070-1B2D-4EFF-91C7-0A40167E1893}
Displayname="IIEObj" - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
{4B209BAD-5B93-4ED4-846E-DCDBD4B3F6C7} - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
{1A98BCA2-0BD1-47DE-9710-C7665F7F1FCB}
Symptoms
Symptoms -
N/A. Not a virus or trojan.
Method of Infection
Method of Infection -
N/A. Not a virus or trojan.
Removal -
Removal -
Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs
Variants
Variants -
N/A