Content
Adware-WebSeek
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 05/17/2005
- Minimum DAT
- 4493 (05/17/2005)
- Updated DAT
- 4634 (11/22/2005)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 05/17/2005
- Description Modified
- 06/13/2005 6:45 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 marketing adware application. Upon execution, this application connects to the site webseeking.com and downloads and displays advertisements.
Privacy
No EULA is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.
System Changes
Filename : adpopup.exe
MD5 : eff8a4190be6c62c1504335f30ef1c0c
Upon execution, adpop.exe creates a copy of itself in %WINDOWS% directory.
%WINDOWS%\dcf5678.exe
The following registry key is added to hook system startup.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run|AdPopup
The following ads are displayed.
Aliases
Aliases
- Trj/Agent.QT (Panda)
- Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.fz (Kaspersky)
- Trojan.LowZones (Symantec)