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Overview

This detection is for a Potentially Unwanted Program [P.U.P]. These are any piece of software which a reasonably security or a privacy minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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.

This description is for a tool which when executed, requests users to participate in a pyramid scheme by paying an amount of 5 Euros through a paypal account.

“A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.”
– From WikiPedia.

While this tool by itself is not malicious, the pyramid scheme which it implements is considered illegal in many countries.

Below are the screen shots of this tool:

Symptoms

Not Applicable.

Method of Infection

Not Applicable.

Removal

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

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This detection is for a Potentially Unwanted Program [P.U.P]. These are any piece of software which a reasonably security or a privacy minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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.

This description is for a tool which when executed, requests users to participate in a pyramid scheme by paying an amount of 5 Euros through a paypal account.

“A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.”
– From WikiPedia.

While this tool by itself is not malicious, the pyramid scheme which it implements is considered illegal in many countries.

Below are the screen shots of this tool:

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Not Applicable.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Not Applicable.

Removal -

Removal -

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

Variants

Variants -

N/A