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Downloader-AGT

Type
Program
SubType
Downloader
Discovery Date
12/08/2005
Minimum DAT
4646 (12/08/2005)
Updated DAT
5010 (04/16/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
12/08/2005
Description Modified
12/22/2005 5:14 PM (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.

This is a detection for a application that is used to download versions of software from http://www.weatherbug.com/  that installs Adware-MWS. This downloader is included within or downloaded by several other applications, often during the installation process.

Removal

All Users:

Please use the following instructions for all supported versions of Windows to remove threats and other potential risks:

1.Disable System Restore (Windows ME/XP only).

2.Update to current engine and DAT files for detection and removal.

3.Run a complete system scan.

Modifications made to the system Registry and/or INI files for the purposes of hooking system startup, will be successfully removed if cleaning with the recommended engine and DAT combination (or higher).

General repair may be unsuccessful in some instances. If this occurs, please submit a sample for further evaluation.

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