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Adware-BonziBuddy.dr

Type
Program
SubType
Dropper
Discovery Date
06/08/2005
Minimum DAT
4509 (06/08/2005)
Updated DAT
4592 (09/28/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/08/2005
Description Modified
09/26/2005 10:54 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.

Installation:

File:    BBSETUP.EXE
Hash: 42091e5fa760f44e2e94e31216dc1578



Upon installation of this adware application the following changes occur in the user's system.

The following files are added to %ProgramFiles%\BonziBUDDY folder:

  • BonziCTB.dll
  • BonziBdy.exe
  • BBuddyMini.exe

The following registry keys are added :

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BonziBDY.Document
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.BonziMAIL_Message
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BonziBUDDY.CPeriod
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BonziBUDDY.clsAddressBook
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BonziTapFilters.clsTapEvent
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BonziBUDDY.CCalendarVBPeriod

This adware application modifies user's default startpage to www. bonzi.com




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