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Adware-SearchFast
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 05/11/2005
- Minimum DAT
- 4489 (05/11/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 4635 (11/23/2005)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 05/11/2005
- Description Modified
- 06/15/2005 1:59 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 adware redirects mistyped urls in the browser to a custom search engine.
Installation:
File name : srchfst.dll
MD5 : cd9bb5b7f573bd8eb0ac8130e5f05f46
Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.
No EULA was observed at the time of installation.
Upon execution of this adware it installs itself as a Browser Helper Object. When urls are mistyped they are redirected to "searchfast.com"
The following registry entries are added
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{DF0C0C7C-14F0-40AB-93C9-D71E6E3DE6DD}] @="SiteManage Class"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{000277A3-7D84-406a-9799-D12A81594693}] @="Searchfst Class"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]"{000277A3-7D84-406a-9799-D12A81594693}"=hex:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"SrchfstUpdate"="C:\\WINDOWS\\srchupdt.exe"
Aliases
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