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Adware-EZTracks

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
10/25/2005
Minimum DAT
4612 (10/25/2005)
Updated DAT
5018 (04/26/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
10/25/2005
Description Modified
12/12/2005 4:50 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.

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 adds an internet explorer toolbar name “IEToolbar”.

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: v-toolbar.dll
MD5Hash: 8c0a4feacfd6a1d26b83674ec4869c1a

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

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\XBTB06814
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\XBTB06814\Toolbar
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {6822CC14-1DA2-4d69-AA9F-F2D268EEFEC0}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\
    {6B035665-6C0D-4388-AD11-B28314DCA59B}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ToolBand.XBTP06814
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ToolBand.XBTP06814.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\
    {1982E06D-582F-4FC2-89D0-B59319E938C8}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XBTB06814.IEToolbar
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XBTB06814.IEToolbar.1
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XBTB06814.XBTB06814
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\XBTB06814.XBTB06814.1
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\
    {6822CC14-1DA2-4d69-AA9F-F2D268EEFEC0}
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\XBTB06814.XBTB06814Toolbar

Aliases

Aliases

  • Kaspersky: AdWare.Win32.Eztracks.a