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Tool-WPAKill

Type
Trojan
SubType
Tool
Discovery Date
11/01/2005
Length
Minimum DAT
4617 (11/01/2005)
Updated DAT
4617 (11/01/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
11/01/2005
Description Modified
01/30/2006 1:08 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
Low
Home User
Low

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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.

This is a detection for an application that could be used to disable Microsoft's Windows Product Activation on various Microsoft Operating Systems.

This tool has no other payload or malicious behavior.

Symptoms

N/A

Method of Infection

N/A

Variants

Variants

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All Information

Overview -

This is a trojan detection. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Characteristics

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.

This is a detection for an application that could be used to disable Microsoft's Windows Product Activation on various Microsoft Operating Systems.

This tool has no other payload or malicious behavior.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

    N/A