Content
Adware-Wink
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 03/29/2005
- Minimum DAT
- 4281 (07/30/2003)
- Updated DAT
- 4587 (09/21/2005)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 04/20/2004
- Description Modified
- 06/22/2005 7:52 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. It is an adware application. Upon execution, the file “win32us.exe” deletes itself.
System Changes
File Name: “win32us.exe”
MD5Hash: “754945671e890d4e28bc2df3e1aa8c73”
Drops the following files into %WINDOWS%\system32 folder:
- "win32us.exe"
- "win32us-uninstall.exe" (detected as Adware-Wink)
The following registry entries are added:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\win32us
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SiteIcons
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run "win32us" - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\win32us
Aliases
Aliases
- Downloader.Dluca.B - Symantec
- MSS, Adware - CA eTrust
- TROJ_DLUCA.B - Trend Micro
