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Adware-ExplBar

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
03/29/2005
Minimum DAT
4279 (07/23/2003)
Updated DAT
4587 (09/21/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/20/2004
Description Modified
06/15/2005 3:09 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:

Upon execution of this application, a blank toolbar is installed in Internet Explorer. Search keywords typed in google are sent to the site tb.adpowerzone.com.

Privacy:

 No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.

Installation:

Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.

Filename : explbar.dll
MD5  : 836d6df15556fb9a12d9b2ca6d272060

Upon execution of the application, Search Explorer Toolbar is installed in Internet Explorer. The following website opens after the toolbar is installed.

The following registry entries confirm dll registration made by this application.

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {23DDAE8C-6A79-4d62-80AA-E95D89CB9811}
    "DisplayName"="Search Explorer Toolbar"
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SearchExplorer.SearchExplorerObj
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SearchExplorer.SearchExplorerObj1
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\My Toolbar
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Toolbar|
    {23DDAE8C-6A79-4d62-80AA-E95D89CB9811}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\My ToolbarIEToolbar
    "DisplayName"="Toolbar - My Toolbar"
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\
    CLASSES\SearchExplorer.SearchExplorerObj
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\
    CLASSES\SearchExplorer.SearchExplorerObj1

Aliases

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