Content
Adware-MokeAd
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Adware
- Discovery Date
- 09/20/2006
- Minimum DAT
- 4856 (09/20/2006)
- Updated DAT
- 5911 (03/05/2010)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 09/20/2006
- Description Modified
- 12/28/2007 1:39 AM (PT)
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Characteristics
McAfee AVERT™ recognizes that this 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 program that when active on a computer, can display pop-up advertising and may also redirect browsers to websites controlled by the makers of this program.
upon execution this program tries to contact internet and download one or more of the following files to the folder it is executed.
- ThreeNews.ini
- adv.ini
- NewsAdv.ini
This program also adds the following entry in windows registry to ensure it is run everytime, when windows starts up.
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\QuickNews
When run, it may contact one or more of the following sites to download updates and advertising banners:
- mokead.com
- software.ppgou.com
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