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Adware-WebSpecials

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
05/17/2005
Minimum DAT
4493 (05/17/2005)
Updated DAT
4493 (05/17/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/17/2005
Description Modified
02/23/2006 11:43 PM (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 detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It is an adware application which connects to many websites like syndrome.webspace4free.biz, static.windupdates.com, instantcontent.freenet.de, ads.webmasterpark.net, ad.zanox.com,de.comtrack.com, shop2.o2online.de and may display pop-up advertisements.

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: 583834B0.exe
Hash: 37af5b27591ed5b1f4145262df541120

Upon installation of this program, the following changes occur in the user's system.

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%UserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER] (Windows NT/2000/XP).

Files Added

  • %UserProfile%\Desktop\mt-uninstaller.exe
  • %UserProfile%\Temp\installer.exe

Registry

Upon installation of the program, a registry run key is created to load the program at system startup:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run "REGRUN"
      Type: REG_SZ
      Data: %UserProfile%\Desktop\583834B0.exe

Removal

All Users:
Use current engine and DAT files for detection and removal.

Modifications made to the system Registry and/or INI files for the purposes of hooking system startup, will be successfully removed if cleaning with the recommended engine and DAT combination (or higher).

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Aliases

Aliases

    N/A