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Adware-SearchMore

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
05/20/2005
Minimum DAT
4496 (05/20/2005)
Updated DAT
4606 (10/17/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/20/2005
Description Modified
10/17/2005 4:39 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 an adware application and may generate extra pop-up ads while using Internet Explorer. No visible indication is given that any software is being installed upon execution of the installation program. This kind of application generally comes bundled with another program, which usually discloses the fact that it is ad-supported

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.

System Changes

File Name : HelpTw.exe
MD5Hash : 817efc8765fe541c66fb5b63bf7ae89f

Upon execution of this adware application, default page of the Internet Explorer has been changed to "search-more.net". While browsing the internet it tries to make some connections with "search-more.net"and "ranking-hits.de" as background processes.

Setting of the Internet Explorer and default page are shown as below:

Following file is added in %WINDOWS% directory:

  • system.exe

Following registry entry is added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run | "NvCplSystem"

Network Impact

Additional overhead in bandwidth due to unwanted internet connections.

Aliases

Aliases

  • Sandbox: W32/Downloader : Norman NVCC
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.aof : Kaspersky Lab
  • Trojan.Downloader.Small.AOF : Softwin