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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.

RemAdm-Rdesk is a remote control program provided by MaxComputing http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/. This tool is made up of a client and a server component.  The server component runs on the remote system and can self execute. the server also provides a "stealth" mode where no icon or window is visible on the server side.

Once the service is running, an administrator using a client program can view activity, take control, transfer files, and shutdown the remote system.

This application may have been installed by your system administrator for providing support for your machine. If this is the case then the alert on this detection should be ignored and may be excluded as described here:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm

However, this application has been abused by several trojan authors for malicious purposes.

The server component of this applications listens on 3 different TCP ports, that are configured on the server side at execution time. Each port provide a different access method, via the custom client, via an advanced client and a web interface.

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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.

RemAdm-Rdesk is a remote control program provided by MaxComputing http://maxcomputing.narod.ru/. This tool is made up of a client and a server component.  The server component runs on the remote system and can self execute. the server also provides a "stealth" mode where no icon or window is visible on the server side.

Once the service is running, an administrator using a client program can view activity, take control, transfer files, and shutdown the remote system.

This application may have been installed by your system administrator for providing support for your machine. If this is the case then the alert on this detection should be ignored and may be excluded as described here:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm

However, this application has been abused by several trojan authors for malicious purposes.

The server component of this applications listens on 3 different TCP ports, that are configured on the server side at execution time. Each port provide a different access method, via the custom client, via an advanced client and a web interface.

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

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