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Overview

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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:   NPND2FN.DLL
Hash: f217630186f9991ee4c1df3cb23fda2e

File:   N2PLUGIN.DLL
Hash: e03ca7d18a3f2073cdd7da483df6127a

File:    ND2FNBAR.DLL
Hash: a2799fc1585474709d8eb2629552e926

This adware application may get bundled with file-sharing application like kazaa. Users agree to have the Adware installed in the license agreement, although they may not realise at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

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

The following toolbar is installed:



ND2FNBAR.DLL is installed as Browser Helper Object.
Browser Helper Object s are executable files that are loaded when the browser is launched. They can perform various task,such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.

The following directories are created:

%Program Files%\Need2Find
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\Cache
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\History
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\Settings

The following Registry keys are added:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Need2Find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Need2Find
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Need2FindBar.SettingsPlugin
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Need2FindBar.ToolbarPlugin.1

This application is an Error Page Hijacker.
Error Page Hijacker is an application which resets internet explorer’s settings to displays a new error page when the requested URL is not found.

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Characteristics

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:   NPND2FN.DLL
Hash: f217630186f9991ee4c1df3cb23fda2e

File:   N2PLUGIN.DLL
Hash: e03ca7d18a3f2073cdd7da483df6127a

File:    ND2FNBAR.DLL
Hash: a2799fc1585474709d8eb2629552e926

This adware application may get bundled with file-sharing application like kazaa. Users agree to have the Adware installed in the license agreement, although they may not realise at first that this file was packaged with the product they installed.

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

The following toolbar is installed:



ND2FNBAR.DLL is installed as Browser Helper Object.
Browser Helper Object s are executable files that are loaded when the browser is launched. They can perform various task,such as generating extra pop-up ads, monitoring page navigation, etc.

The following directories are created:

%Program Files%\Need2Find
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\Cache
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\History
%Program Files%\Need2Find\bar\Settings

The following Registry keys are added:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Need2Find
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Need2Find
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Need2FindBar.SettingsPlugin
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Need2FindBar.ToolbarPlugin.1

This application is an Error Page Hijacker.
Error Page Hijacker is an application which resets internet explorer’s settings to displays a new error page when the requested URL is not found.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

N/A