Content
Adware-Fastlook
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 04/28/2005
- Minimum DAT
- 4479 (04/28/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 5535 (02/24/2009)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 04/28/2005
- Description Modified
- 10/19/2005 3:28 AM (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.
Summary:
This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application .Upon registering the dll, an internet explorer toolbar name “Stoolbar” gets installed as shown in the figure.
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: stoolbd.dll
MD5Hash: 231e9c48f24a92b750ac977d942ba907
Upon registering the dll following are the registry keys which get added:
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
{0E1230F8-EA50-42A9-983C-D22ABC2EED3B} - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
{95B92D92-8B7D-4A19-A3F1-43113B4DBCAF} - HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ToolBand.ToolBandObj
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ToolBand.ToolBandObj.1
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
{5297E905-1DFB-4A9C-9871-A4F9
Aliases
Aliases
- Kaspersky: AdWare.Win32.FastLook.a
- Panda Antivirus: Adware/Startpage.NA
- Symantec: Adware.FastLook
