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Overview

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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 not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program."  Detection was added to cover protection against a file called "kp.exe ", having a filesize of 16.384 bytes decimal.

The file can be used to kill processes. This can be done for legitimate reasons but the above file was found in a trojan multidropper package where its main function is to kill processes (from for example firewall and av software) or other system settings.

The file originates from "SoftTree Technologies".

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal

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

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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 not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program."  Detection was added to cover protection against a file called "kp.exe ", having a filesize of 16.384 bytes decimal.

The file can be used to kill processes. This can be done for legitimate reasons but the above file was found in a trojan multidropper package where its main function is to kill processes (from for example firewall and av software) or other system settings.

The file originates from "SoftTree Technologies".

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

N/A