Content
Aefdisk
- Type
- Program
- SubType
- Tool
- Discovery Date
- 08/06/2007
- Length
- Minimum DAT
- 5092 (08/07/2007)
- Updated DAT
- 5092 (08/07/2007)
- Minimum Engine
- 5.1.00
- Description Added
- 08/06/2007
- Description Modified
- 08/06/2007 4:17 AM (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.
PUP detection was added to cover for an arguable 32 bit PE file originally called "patch.exe", having a filesize of 207.334 bytes.
Upon running, a gui messagebox appears that only gives the option to cancel or go ahead, there's no extended readme or other information displayed on what the package is nor what files will be placed on the system.
It drops the following files onto the system:
- Patch.exe (filesize 207.334 bytes) - pup/application "Aefdisk"
- CMD.exe (filesize 236.304 bytes) - this is an innocent file
- FILE.exe (filesize 35.840 bytes) - pup/application "Aefdisk"
- POPUP.exe (filesize 83.968 bytes) - remnant
The Aefdisk software is a very powerfull tool for partitioning disks etc.
The presence of such software is arguable especially if it's being dropped onto the system unknowingly.
Therefore the Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) application detection.
Symptoms
Method of Infection
Variants
Variants
N/A
All Information
Overview -
Aliases
- Application.RiskTool.Aefdisk.A (Softwin)
- HackerTool/Aefdisk32 (Fortinet)
- not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.Aefdisk32.11 (Ikarus)
- not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.Aefdisk32.11(Kaspersky)
- Win-AppCare/Aefdisk32.35840 (Ahnlab)
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.
PUP detection was added to cover for an arguable 32 bit PE file originally called "patch.exe", having a filesize of 207.334 bytes.
Upon running, a gui messagebox appears that only gives the option to cancel or go ahead, there's no extended readme or other information displayed on what the package is nor what files will be placed on the system.
It drops the following files onto the system:
- Patch.exe (filesize 207.334 bytes) - pup/application "Aefdisk"
- CMD.exe (filesize 236.304 bytes) - this is an innocent file
- FILE.exe (filesize 35.840 bytes) - pup/application "Aefdisk"
- POPUP.exe (filesize 83.968 bytes) - remnant
The Aefdisk software is a very powerfull tool for partitioning disks etc.
The presence of such software is arguable especially if it's being dropped onto the system unknowingly.
Therefore the Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) application detection.
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
