RE: winad.exe and winad-update.exe

[Jensenne Roculan <jroculan () securityfocus com>]

Hi there,

WinAd
http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusSummary.asp?virus_k=99236

It is an Adware program and is neither a virus or a trojan.

Cheers,

Jensenne Roculan
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 PNIXON () ci somerville ma us wrote:

> I saw these this morning.  McAfee caught them as WinAd.A and WinAd.B
>
> No information available through their site.
>
> Patrick Nixon
> Network Engineer
> City of Somerville
> Information Technology
> pnixon @ ci . somerville . ma . us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Shaw [mailto:mshaw () wwisp com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: INCIDENTS () securityfocus com
> Subject: winad.exe and winad-update.exe
>
>
> Anyone ever heard of these?  Norton is calling them "backdoor.trojan" and
> quarantining them.  They don't appear to be coming in via email.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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