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Adware-Cometsys

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
01/19/2005
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
4420 (01/19/2005)
Updated DAT
5583 (04/13/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
01/19/2005
Description Modified
08/12/2005 5:31 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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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 Trojan. On executing the application and registering the dlls a toolbar name “starware ” gets installed.

Privacy :

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

Installation :

File name="screensaversinstaller.exe" MD5Hash="3bdcec3e58773148a94d2068a12a15d1"

File name="dmserver.exe" MD5Hash="2da59d5cbe27281a1b17f5c582f206ac"

File name="exeins~1.exe” MD5Hash="5c39becce6502bae615e55d0b7c38bef"

Library name="cssecure.dll” MD5Hash="70d06474e37815f215584d696a7bdd25"

Library name="plugin~1.dll” MD5Hash="db7c480be1e9fc50bba3a6fcc6d0539b"

Library name="dmproxy.dll" MD5Hash="df684f4f91c05509ba48352ed50a7224"

After executing the application and registering the dlls some of the following registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{197AB1D7-A7DD-4C86-A938-1FCC0DB21B85}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{A5EA242A-442E-4ecb-9CAC-97037CCD6EC6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{CBE7D5E7-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{E28FCB54-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FE6BC4EF-5676-484B-88AE-883323913256}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID
    \{BAC984C9-78C8-4105-9E97-1675A4052686}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{E28FCB53-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{CBE7D5E6-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{2FCFB3FD-7184-4C42-AED3-30FFF0119964}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Comet Systems
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
    \CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects
    \{D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
    \CurrentVersion\Run  “DM_Server”

Following folder is created:

  • C:\Program Files\Comet Systems

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

  • CA etrust pestpatrol: downloader comet dmserver
  • Symantec : adware-mainsearch

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.

Summary:

This is not a virus or Trojan. On executing the application and registering the dlls a toolbar name “starware ” gets installed.

Privacy :

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No EULA or privacy policy related to the software could be found.

Installation :

File name="screensaversinstaller.exe" MD5Hash="3bdcec3e58773148a94d2068a12a15d1"

File name="dmserver.exe" MD5Hash="2da59d5cbe27281a1b17f5c582f206ac"

File name="exeins~1.exe” MD5Hash="5c39becce6502bae615e55d0b7c38bef"

Library name="cssecure.dll” MD5Hash="70d06474e37815f215584d696a7bdd25"

Library name="plugin~1.dll” MD5Hash="db7c480be1e9fc50bba3a6fcc6d0539b"

Library name="dmproxy.dll" MD5Hash="df684f4f91c05509ba48352ed50a7224"

After executing the application and registering the dlls some of the following registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{197AB1D7-A7DD-4C86-A938-1FCC0DB21B85}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{A5EA242A-442E-4ecb-9CAC-97037CCD6EC6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{CBE7D5E7-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID
    \{E28FCB54-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FE6BC4EF-5676-484B-88AE-883323913256}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID
    \{BAC984C9-78C8-4105-9E97-1675A4052686}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{E28FCB53-8C8E-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{CBE7D5E6-90A2-11D3-80D1-00500487B1C5}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface
    \{2FCFB3FD-7184-4C42-AED3-30FFF0119964}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Comet Systems
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
    \CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects
    \{D14D6793-9B65-11D3-80B6-00500487BDBA}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows
    \CurrentVersion\Run  “DM_Server”

Following folder is created:

  • C:\Program Files\Comet Systems

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