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Adware-RXBar

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
05/18/2005
Minimum DAT
4494 (05/18/2005)
Updated DAT
5108 (08/29/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/18/2005
Description Modified
12/08/2005 11:46 PM (PT)

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT(tm) 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.

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware application from searchenginebar .

Installation

File:    RXToolbar.exe
Hash:  f5365b2b6285ad9afbeef0779dac9429

Upon execution, this marketing application installs the following toolbar.

The following directories are created:

%Program Files%\RXToolBar
%Program Files%\RXToolBar\Cache
%Program Files%\RXToolBar\graphics
%Program Files%\RXToolBar\HTML

The following Registry keys are added:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RXToolBar.TBInfo
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RX Toolbar
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{25D8BACF-3DE2-4B48-AE22-D659B8D835B0}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
\Toolbar "{25D8BACF-3DE2-4B48-AE22-D659B8D835B0}"

This adware application tracks user's browsing habits and displays links accroding to user's search keywords on the RxToolBar.

For example if user shops online for digital cameras .


The following links are displayed on the RXToolBar.

Aliases

Aliases

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