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Adware-Pushtoolbar

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
09/19/2005
Minimum DAT
4584 (09/19/2005)
Updated DAT
4586 (09/20/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
09/19/2005
Description Modified
09/20/2005 5:38 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. Push toolbar is a browser helper object. Once the dll is registered a toolbar gets installed as shown in the figure.

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: Searchv2.dll
Md5hash: 584864f99690b8bf3931185701db95af

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

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Dynamic Toolbar
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Dynamic Toolbar\SEARCHV2
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Dynamic Toolbar\
    SEARCHV2\Reports
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-A0E8-F76FA694BF2E}
  •  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\searchv2.SEARCHV2

Following folders are added:

  • c:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar
  • c:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\SEARCHV2
  • c:\Program Files\Dynamic Toolbar\SEARCHV2\Cache



Aliases

Aliases

  • CA etrust pestpatrol: searchv , hijacker
  • IKARUS PSCAN: Adware.toolbar.powersearch.c
  • Kaspersky: Adware.toolbar.powersearch.c