Malware type: Trojan

Aliases: Trojan.Win32.StartPage.ku (Kaspersky), Adware-SubSearch (McAfee), Adware.Fastfind (Symantec), TR/StartPage.KU.2 (Avira),

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP

Encrypted: No

Description: 

This Trojan may arrive on a system either by installation by another malware or manual installation a user. It adds several registry keys as part of its installation routine.

This Trojan drops a .DLL file, which it registers as a Browser Helper Object (BHO) to provide itself adware functionalities during an Internet Explorer session.

This malware is created in Visual Basic and arrives as CEXE-compressed file. It runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

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Description created: Jul. 11, 2004 9:33:55 PM GMT -0800
Description updated: Apr. 3, 2005 11:30:01 PM GMT -0800

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