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Adware-SearchHelper

Type
Program
SubType
Adware
Discovery Date
12/06/2007
Minimum DAT
5179 (12/06/2007)
Updated DAT
5179 (12/06/2007)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
12/06/2007
Description Modified
12/26/2007 4:24 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.

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.

Various versions of this program may create one or more of the following entries in the Windows Registry:

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C04BB70C-5F50-473B-8A57-34F452CB0D96}
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{C04BB70C-5F50-473B-8A57-34F452CB0D96}\TypeLib
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SearchHelper.SearchHelp
  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SearchHelper.SearchHelp.1 
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{C04BB70C-
F50-473B-8A57-34F452CB0D96}

 

 

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