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Adware-HMToolbar.dll

Type
Program
SubType
Application extension
Discovery Date
06/30/2005
Minimum DAT
4525 (06/30/2005)
Updated DAT
4525 (06/30/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/30/2005
Description Modified
12/14/2005 9:43 PM (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.

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Summary

This is not a virus or Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. Upon execution, it ads its own toolbar, as marked below:

On browsing, it contacts its controlling server (tool.world2.com) and other servers also, such as hongen.com. Any search performed in search bar of the toolbar will lead to either of following sites: study.hongen.com, baidu.com or google.com, depending upon the option selected in the toolbar.

Privacy

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No privacy policy related to the software could be found.

Installation

File name: hmtoolbar.dll
MD5Hash: 517f4fe7796a05e30a5171b52af947fc

Following registry keys are added upon executing the application:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Hugi.HugiObj
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Hugi.HugiObj.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\world2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar “{F43BD772-ABDD-43b7-A96A-3E9E61946EC0}”

Aliases

Aliases

  • Adware.Hmtoolbar: Symantec
  • Adware.Win32.Hmt: Kaspersky