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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.

The license agreement and privacy policy are not displayed during installation, but are links to the documents online (see below).

The license agreement referenced can be found at: http://www.whenu.com/EULAs/savenow_eula.html

The privacy link leads to: http://www.whenu.com/privacy_center.html

Installation

Upon execution, the application installs itself into the "C:\Program Files\Save\" directory as "save.exe" .

For example:

C:\Program Files\Save\Save.exe

The following Registry key(s) is/are added to hook system startup:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
"WhenUSave" = "c:\Program Files\Save\Save.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"DisplayIcon" = "C:\Program Files\Save\Save.exe,1"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"DisplayName" = "SaveNow"

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"DisplayVersion" = "2.64"

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"HelpLink" = "www.whenu.com"

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"Publisher" = "WhenU.com, Inc."

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"UninstallString" = "C:\Program Files\Save\SaveUninst.exe" /rWUSV /kSaveNow /dSaveNow"

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\Uninstall\SaveNow
"UrlInfoAbout" = "www.whenu.com"

Users who would like to check for the presence of potentially unwanted programs on their system should run the command line scanner with the /PROGRAM switch.
Please note that VirusScan 7, and higher, has an option that enables users to detect this kind of program automatically (see below).

Removal

Aliases

Aliases

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