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Adware-Shorty

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
07/14/2005
Minimum DAT
4535 (07/14/2005)
Updated DAT
4993 (03/27/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
07/14/2005
Description Modified
12/15/2005 5:32 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 Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. Upon execution this application install itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for the internet explorer. It displays search results from “maxifiles.com” when search queries are made from sites like google.

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.

Installation:

File name: CATCHER.DLL
MD5Hash: d41b6f5b38b212660caf6f9db7bdc94e

File name: CWEBPAGE.DLL
MD5Hash: 83e8f03547cd088ba087d28b5d70a706

File name: GUI.EXE
MD5Hash: af62ff7f52ea3b7c7ab6a44adca3f079

On executing the application some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {11A4CA8C-A8B9-49c2-A6D3-3F64C9EEBAE6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\
    {31CA5C07-7F5F-4502-8C77-99A91558ADD0}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Shorty.Gopher
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Shorty.Gopher.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {223A26D8-9F91-42F6-8ED3-094B637DE020}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {11A4CA8C-A8B9-49c2-A6D3-3F64C9EEBAE6}

Aliases

Aliases

  • CA eTrust: Shorty.Gopher, Adware
  • Kaspersky: AdWare.Win32.Maxifiles.j
  • Panda Antivirus: Adware/Maxifiles
  • Symantec: Adware.Shorty