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Adware-DogPile

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
08/10/2005
Minimum DAT
4555 (08/10/2005)
Updated DAT
5299 (05/20/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
08/10/2005
Description Modified
09/22/2005 12:50 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.

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Summary:

Adware-dogpile is a toolbar plugin for IE that allows the users to perform searches. The users can refer the URL www.dogpile.com

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: cursorsearchword.dll
MD5Hash: 19e456bb66a838e105fae752e328d8e7

File name: dogpile1.dll
MD5Hash: d0e7b75a02d7b931998ce2c1352323fd

File name: dogpile.dll
MD5Hash: d7005c17730dd2fc099d3a7121659e97

File name: insptbar.dll
MD5Hash: b82966a6ae8d9786099e16084ce46273

On registering the dll some of the registry keys which get added are:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Infospace\DogpileToolbar
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {5E92F538-B50B-46c5-9C5F-C6EECED3F6C6}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {866edd05-a658-4099-a87f-ba6ed07fc74c}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {DCA9F79B-903A-456D-847D-43A2EFE0476B}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CursorSearchWord.CConnect
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{55A59FFC-65F0-4995-93BA-D03EAA16443D}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\
    {5E92F538-B50B-46c5-9C5F-C6EECED3F6C6}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
    Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\
    {866edd05-a658-4099-a87f-ba6ed07fc74c}
  •  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\DogpileToolbar

  

On downloading the toolbar from the website a folder gets added:

  • C:\ProgramFiles\dogpile

 

Aliases

Aliases

  • Kaspersky: Adware-dogpile.a
  • Softwin AVXC/BDC: Adware-dogpile.b