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Adware-ZSearch

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
05/13/2005
Length
Minimum DAT
4491 (05/13/2005)
Updated DAT
6408 (07/15/2011)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/13/2005
Description Modified
06/09/2005 4:46 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:

Upon execution, this application connects to ads.centralmedia.ws and installs a blank toolbar in Internet Explorer.

Privacy:

No EULA was observed at the time of installation.

Installation:

Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.

Filename : zstb.exe
MD5  : c01c2f55a3e73c4d44f4be7abc2030d7

Upon installation, a blank toolbar is installed in Internet Explorer.

The following Registry entries are added to hook system startup.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\
    CLSID\{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}
    "DisplayName" = "zSearch Bar"
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run|zSearch
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
    Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
    Toolbar|{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}

Symptoms

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

Method of Infection

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

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.ToolBar.ZSearch.a (Kaspersky)
  • Adware.zSearch (Symantec)
  • Adware/zSearch (Panda)
  • ZSearch, Toolbar (CA eTrust PestPatrol)

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:

Upon execution, this application connects to ads.centralmedia.ws and installs a blank toolbar in Internet Explorer.

Privacy:

No EULA was observed at the time of installation.

Installation:

Filenames and locations may vary from version to version.

Filename : zstb.exe
MD5  : c01c2f55a3e73c4d44f4be7abc2030d7

Upon installation, a blank toolbar is installed in Internet Explorer.

The following Registry entries are added to hook system startup.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\
    CLSID\{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}
    "DisplayName" = "zSearch Bar"
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run|zSearch
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\
    Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
    Toolbar|{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Windows\CurrentVersion\
    Uninstall\{5886A6DC-AAF4-45E9-979A-8E5E6DEE30E7}

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A. This is not a trojan or virus.

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

    N/A