Content
Tool-SRunner
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Tool
- Discovery Date
- 12/08/2004
- Minimum DAT
- 4412 (12/08/2004)
- Updated DAT
- 5170 (11/23/2007)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 12/08/2004
- Description Modified
- 05/26/2005 9:51 AM (PT)
Tab Navigation
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.
Distribution
This is not a virus or trojan. It is a legitimate application for installing Windows services via a DOS command line. The application may be misused by certain pieces of malware in order to facilitate remote downloads.
Installation
When executed via the command line, here are the following command line options:
Usage: instsrv
to install a service, or:
instsrv
to remove a service
In the case of this service, a more specific example
instsrv FloppyLocker c:\q_a\samples\sd_flppy\service\floplock.exe
(note fully-qualified path name to .exe)
instsrv FloppyLocker remove
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
Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs
Use the ADD/REMOVE Programs Control Panel in Windows to remove this program.Aliases
Aliases
-
N/A
