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Adware-PrecisionPop

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
03/29/2005
Minimum DAT
4328 (02/25/2004)
Updated DAT
4803 (07/10/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/26/2004
Description Modified
06/13/2005 5:18 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 a direct-marketing adware application.

Privacy

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

System Changes

Filename : ppstub.exe
MD5  : f6d43c8245663c20a439a9191171d35f

Filename : precpop2.exe
MD5  : 9eb36903f979e417b733f4f1ea1b9ff7

Filename : starter.exe
MD5  : c9ec2ef4f33913edd3f2495939943df0

Following file is added:

%PROGRAMFILES%\ppstub\ppstub.exe

Following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run|bin32hpu
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ppstub
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Precpop2

Aliases

Aliases

  • Adware.PrecisionPop (Symantec)
  • AdWare.PrecisionPop.a (Kaspersky)
  • PrecisionPop,Adware (CA eTrust PestPatrol)
  • Trojan.Adware.PrecisionPop (Prognet)