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RemAdm-HueyPC

Type
Program
SubType
Remote Access
Discovery Date
09/27/2007
Length
Minimum DAT
5130 (09/28/2007)
Updated DAT
5131 (10/01/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
09/27/2007
Description Modified
09/27/2007 2:24 PM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) Avert Labs 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.aspx 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.

Distribution

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program. It is a remote administration tool used to control functions of a target computer over a network.

Huey PC Remote Control is a remote control application produced by GID Software.


Key features of this PUP include:

  • No reboot upon installation
  • small installation footprint (no DLLs)
  • Optimized video performance

This program consists of a server piece and client piece, both of which have a very small footprint. Communication between the two components is both compressed and encrypted.

The default communications port, between client and server, is TCP 2200

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Removal

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

Use the ADD/REMOVE Programs Control Panel in Windows to remove this program.

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) Avert Labs 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.aspx 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.

Distribution

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program. It is a remote administration tool used to control functions of a target computer over a network.

Huey PC Remote Control is a remote control application produced by GID Software.


Key features of this PUP include:

  • No reboot upon installation
  • small installation footprint (no DLLs)
  • Optimized video performance

This program consists of a server piece and client piece, both of which have a very small footprint. Communication between the two components is both compressed and encrypted.

The default communications port, between client and server, is TCP 2200

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

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

Use the ADD/REMOVE Programs Control Panel in Windows to remove this program.

Variants

Variants -

    N/A