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Adware-MetaSearch.dr

Type
Program
SubType
Dropper
Discovery Date
10/11/2005
Minimum DAT
4602 (10/11/2005)
Updated DAT
4602 (10/11/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
10/11/2005
Description Modified
12/14/2005 4:22 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:

This is not a virus or Trojan. It is a direct adware marketing application. Upon execution the Internet Explorer home page is modified and the homepage is set to “quickmetasearch.com”. It also adds two Browser Helper Objects.

Privacy:

No license agreement is displayed during installation, although one could be displayed by another installer if bundled with another application. No Privacy policy related to the software could be found.

Installation:

File name: 59875E82.exe
MD5Hash:  d5f2d90b918a008e25c4c53f19a384cb

File name:  9BBCB5A0.exe
MD5Hash:  f406103bb16154296b796ce3591bd8c4

Following folders are added in “C:\Program Files”

  • STHomepage
  • STLinks

Following files are added:

  • STHomePage.dll
  • STLinks.dll

Following registry keys are added:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B54BFA47-D897-49CA-9657-05EC9F80A32B}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1B9CB0F8-118B-49C1-956D-B703E976F8E3}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{F93C87CE-0318-47DA-803A-3BA4C8FC0D62}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{73A90743-6A64-425D-B4EA-44D7C839F565}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{D77EECF7-095D-4437-A6F7-4E1D4000A8AA}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{D31B7025-CC3A-40EA-B1D5-139EA9B70D00}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{B54BFA47-D897-49CA-9657-05EC9F80A32B}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{1B9CB0F8-118B-49C1-956D-B703E976F8E3}

Aliases

Aliases

  • Adware.Win32.MetaSearch.a - Kaspersky
  • Adware/BHO- Panda