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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.

Distribution

This is not a virus or trojan. It is a porn related application. This application generates automatically opens the web browser and remains active in the system tray.

Installation

Upon execution, the application installs itself into the %SysDir% directory as "srs.EXE".

(Where %Sysdir% is the Windows System directory, for example C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM)

For example:

c:\WINDOWS\system32\ShellExt\srs.EXE

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.yellowstuff.com"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Connector" = "%SysDir%\ShellExt\srs.EXE -n"

The Start page for Internet Explorer is also changed to point to the "http://www.yellowstuff.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

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Aliases

Aliases

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