Content
Adware-abetterintrnt.dldr
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Downloader
- Discovery Date
- 03/07/2005
- Length
- 41,984 Bytes
- Minimum DAT
- 4411 (12/01/2004)
- Updated DAT
- 5715 (08/20/2009)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 12/01/2004
- Description Modified
- 03/17/2005 3:28 PM (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.
Ixplore.exe, detected as adware-BetterInet.dldr, downloads various adware and dialer programs. It also sends out system info to thinstall.betterinternet.com prior to installation of the downloaded programs. Some of the downloaded adware programs are as follows:
- Adware-BetterInet
- Adware-IPSentry
- Downloader-KL
- Dialer-RAS.bb.gen
The files are downloaded from following sites
- http://thinstall.abetterinternet.com
- http://download.abetterinternet.com
- http://static.abetterinternet.com
Installation
The Downloader adds itself to the following run registry key in order to get executed on each reboot.
- KEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-854245398-1383384898-842925246- 500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Apwheel: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ixplore.exe"
The following files is/are downloaded
- Name: Dtvbrqgl.exe (Downloader-KL)
MD5: A2 80 88 02 0C 3E EA 46 B6 5B 39 87 7B 82 64 AA [0-131FF]
Size: 78,336 Bytes - Name: Ceres.dll (Adware-BetterInet)
Md5: 81 B5 B9 03 05 26 46 A7 94 06 EB 54 C0 1E 8B D3 [0-4FFFF]
Size: 327,680 bytes - Name: Farmnext.exe (Aware-IPSentry)
MD5: 10 80 B2 7D FF C3 13 19 A7 D7 FC 1B EF 10 9D E9
Size: 69, 632 bytes - Name: Bg3.exe (Dialer RAS.bb.gen)
MD5: 57 A3 9E 2A 75 55 E0 CE 53 FF 7D F7 CD B7 52 84
Size: 70, 144 bytes
Symptoms
Symptoms depend upon the characteristics of files downloaded.Symptoms
N/A This is not a virus or trojan
Method of Infection
N/A This is 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
- Adware-BetterInet.dldr
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.
Ixplore.exe, detected as adware-BetterInet.dldr, downloads various adware and dialer programs. It also sends out system info to thinstall.betterinternet.com prior to installation of the downloaded programs. Some of the downloaded adware programs are as follows:
- Adware-BetterInet
- Adware-IPSentry
- Downloader-KL
- Dialer-RAS.bb.gen
The files are downloaded from following sites
- http://thinstall.abetterinternet.com
- http://download.abetterinternet.com
- http://static.abetterinternet.com
Installation
The Downloader adds itself to the following run registry key in order to get executed on each reboot.
- KEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-854245398-1383384898-842925246- 500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Apwheel: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ixplore.exe"
The following files is/are downloaded
- Name: Dtvbrqgl.exe (Downloader-KL)
MD5: A2 80 88 02 0C 3E EA 46 B6 5B 39 87 7B 82 64 AA [0-131FF]
Size: 78,336 Bytes - Name: Ceres.dll (Adware-BetterInet)
Md5: 81 B5 B9 03 05 26 46 A7 94 06 EB 54 C0 1E 8B D3 [0-4FFFF]
Size: 327,680 bytes - Name: Farmnext.exe (Aware-IPSentry)
MD5: 10 80 B2 7D FF C3 13 19 A7 D7 FC 1B EF 10 9D E9
Size: 69, 632 bytes - Name: Bg3.exe (Dialer RAS.bb.gen)
MD5: 57 A3 9E 2A 75 55 E0 CE 53 FF 7D F7 CD B7 52 84
Size: 70, 144 bytes
Symptoms
Symptoms depend upon the characteristics of files downloaded.Symptoms
Symptoms -
N/A This is not a virus or trojan
Method of Infection
Method of Infection -
N/A This is not a virus or trojan
Removal -
Removal -
Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs
Variants
Variants -
N/A
