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Characteristics

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Distribution:

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program." It is a browser helper object (BHO) that integrates with Internet Explorer.
McAfee Avert Labs observed this program was installed via Downloader-UA.h trojan.

Privacy:

This is a program that when active on a computer, can display pop-up advertising.
This monitors web accesses and forwards messages sent from machines to the following site.

• context-tool.com

It then displays pop-up advertising.

System Changes

General defaults for typical path variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

Files

• %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\AdvancedEnhancer.dat
• %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\AdvancedEnhancer-1.dll
• %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\pcre3.dll
• %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\uninstall.exe

Registry

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AdvancedEnhancer
  "install_dir" =  %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer
  "InstallDir" =  %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer
  "new_url" =  http://context-tool.com/new?app=AE&flag=
  "removal_url" =  http://context-tool.com/retire?app=AE&flag=
  "segmentID" = (digists)
  "update_url" = http://data.context-tool.com/AE/%s.xml?%s&release=%s
   "user" = (random hex string)
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.BrowserWatcher\CLSID 
  "(Default)" =  {89859EA8-28C4-875F-A49A-7F8533C89DDE}
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.BrowserWatcher.1\CLSID
  "(Default)" = {89859EA8-28C4-875F-A49A-7F8533C89DDE}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{89859EA8-28C4-875F-A49A-7F8533C89DDE}
  "(Default)" = BrowserWatcher Class
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{89859EA8-28C4-875F-A49A-7F8533C89DDE}\InprocServer32
  "(Default)" = %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\AdvancedEnhancer-1.dll
   ThreadingModel" = Both
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.PornPro_BHO\CLSID
  "(Default)" =  {1C13318E-AD8A-B58A-95B8-FAC921E100E5}
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.PornPro_BHO.1\CLSID
  "(Default)" =  {1C13318E-AD8A-B58A-95B8-FAC921E100E5}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4F524DEB-BDF7-D616-FD65-47E60EC25845}
   "(Default)" =  PrecacheBrowserHost Class
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4F524DEB-BDF7-D616-FD65-47E60EC25845}\InprocServer32
  "(Default)"  = %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\AdvancedEnhancer-1.dll
  "ThreadingModel" =Both
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.PrecacheBrowserHost\CLSID
  "(Default)" =  {4F524DEB-BDF7-D616-FD65-47E60EC25845}
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AdvancedEnhancer.PrecacheBrowserHost.1\CLSID
  "(Default)" =  {4F524DEB-BDF7-D616-FD65-47E60EC25845}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1C13318E-AD8A-B58A-95B8-FAC921E100E5}
  "(Default)" = AdvancedEnhancer
  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1C13318E-AD8A-B58A-95B8-FAC921E100E5}\InprocServer32
  "(Default)" =  %ProgramFiles%\AdvancedEnhancer\AdvancedEnhancer-1.dll
   "ThreadingModel" =  Both

Removal

Aliases

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