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Adware-BDSearch

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
04/27/2005
Length
N/A
Minimum DAT
4478 (04/27/2005)
Updated DAT
5360 (08/13/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
04/27/2005
Description Modified
06/09/2005 3:59 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 a Trojan. It is an adware application. It gets installed as a Browser Helper Object. A blue paw like icon appears in the toolbar of Internet Explorer and has drop-down menu containing links to other pages. All the links and pages it opens are in Chinese language.

System Changes

File Name: “BDSrHook.dll”
MD5Hash: “aa1b0eda42d8a6fce282d10e3b363d9f”

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {E85A87F7-4AB3-4a9f-8187-9AFDD89489AA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MimeFilter.AdFilter
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDHook.BDSrchHook
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {F08555AF-9CC3-11D2-AA8E-000000000000}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {576F7E38-833A-4B0B-9A37-3865726D031E}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {3034F39C-A0B3-4068-9C0C-FC566B0263A3}
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Extensions\CmdMapping
    “{BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}"
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run "BIE"
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CNNIC
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Baidu
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\BDHelper

Symptoms

N/A. Not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A. 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/BDSToolbar - Panda Antivirus

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 a Trojan. It is an adware application. It gets installed as a Browser Helper Object. A blue paw like icon appears in the toolbar of Internet Explorer and has drop-down menu containing links to other pages. All the links and pages it opens are in Chinese language.

System Changes

File Name: “BDSrHook.dll”
MD5Hash: “aa1b0eda42d8a6fce282d10e3b363d9f”

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {E85A87F7-4AB3-4a9f-8187-9AFDD89489AA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MimeFilter.AdFilter
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDHook.BDSrchHook
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {F08555AF-9CC3-11D2-AA8E-000000000000}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {576F7E38-833A-4B0B-9A37-3865726D031E}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {3034F39C-A0B3-4068-9C0C-FC566B0263A3}
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Extensions\CmdMapping
    “{BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}"
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {BC207F7D-3E63-4ACA-99B5-FB5F8428200C}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run "BIE"
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CNNIC
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Baidu
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\BDHelper

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A. Not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A. Not a virus or trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

    N/A