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McAfee(R) Avert(R) 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.

Tool-PWRecover is not a virus or a Trojan. It is a Potentially Unwanted Program. Tool-PWRecover detections are for tools that can be used in the process of reading or writing password hashes for operating system user accounts. These tools can have legitimate purposes but are also often observed residing on compromised systems or uploaded to systems by an attacker.

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

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McAfee(R) Avert(R) 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.

Tool-PWRecover is not a virus or a Trojan. It is a Potentially Unwanted Program. Tool-PWRecover detections are for tools that can be used in the process of reading or writing password hashes for operating system user accounts. These tools can have legitimate purposes but are also often observed residing on compromised systems or uploaded to systems by an attacker.

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

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