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Adware-TCent

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
07/24/2006
Length
Minimum DAT
4813 (07/24/2006)
Updated DAT
5583 (04/13/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
07/24/2006
Description Modified
12/23/2007 8:34 AM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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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 a Trojan. It is an adware application. After installed , Internet Explorer 's  drop-down menu contais links to soso.com . All the links and pages it opens are in Chinese language.

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.

System Changes


File Name : "Setup_QQ.exe"
MD5Hash: "F0DC8EBE8AC44CC6DD679D1AC4DD05E8"

The following files are droped:

  • %Windir% \system32\Scrax.dll   
  • %Windir% \system32\SSup.dll

(Where %Windir% is the Windows directory, for example C:\WINDOWS)

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\stup.exe
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\TBH\Bitmap 
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{0C7C23EF-A848-485B-873C-0ED954731014}

 

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

Aliases

  • ADSPY/AdPlus.B.6 (AntiVir)

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.

Summary

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is an adware application. After installed , Internet Explorer 's  drop-down menu contais links to soso.com . All the links and pages it opens are in Chinese language.

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.

System Changes


File Name : "Setup_QQ.exe"
MD5Hash: "F0DC8EBE8AC44CC6DD679D1AC4DD05E8"

The following files are droped:

  • %Windir% \system32\Scrax.dll   
  • %Windir% \system32\SSup.dll

(Where %Windir% is the Windows directory, for example C:\WINDOWS)

The following registry entries are added:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\stup.exe
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\TBH\Bitmap 
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{0C7C23EF-A848-485B-873C-0ED954731014}

 

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

    N/A