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Adware-IEBar

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
06/03/2005
Minimum DAT
4506 (06/03/2005)
Updated DAT
5842 (12/24/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/03/2005
Description Modified
12/01/2005 12:20 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. On execution of the application it creates a toolbar and opens a browser window connecting to “iebar.t2t2.com”.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application.

System Changes

File Name: “HDTBar.DLL”
MD5Hash: “ec6c1953f90b6d9e81146e8d3aa702fb”

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {56A7DC70-E102-4408-A34A-AE06FEF01586}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {9AAABFE1-22A9-4E0D-8F4A-48B9696A199B}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {0E17EA1E-11AD-45BC-B749-82227F053142}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {1F77F67E-BD08-4932-AF5A-15FD532EEDB1}
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\HDT
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\
    Toolbar "{56A7DC70-E102-4408-A34A-AE06FEF01586}"

Aliases

Aliases

  • Adware.Iebar – Symantec
  • AdWare.Win32.Iebar.a – Kaspersky