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Adware-SideSearch.dr

Type
Program
SubType
Dropper
Discovery Date
07/27/2005
Minimum DAT
4544 (07/27/2005)
Updated DAT
5760 (10/03/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
07/27/2005
Description Modified
08/19/2005 5:37 AM (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:    lycos_ss_ex3.exe
Hash: 8fc638f84d4296a6c19d32c91811cda9

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

The following directories are created:

 %Program Files%\Lycos
%Program Files%\Lycos\Sidesearch
%Program Files%\Lycos\Sidesearch\temp

The following files are created:

  • sidesearch1400.dll
  • ClrSchUninstall_78_86.exe

The following Registry keys are added:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lycos
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lycos\Sidesearch
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{00000762-3965-4A1A-98CE-3D4BF457D4C8}

sidesearch1400.dll is an adware application from Lycos.

Visit the following link for more information about Adware-SideSearch .

This adware application shows the search result in a separate popup window and use Lycos search engine to show the results.

Aliases

Aliases

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