Adware.CDT

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Updated: 13 February 2007 11:38:54 AM

Type: Adware

Risk Impact: Medium

File Names: Mediatickets.exe

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Behavior

Adware.CDT is an adware program that displays advertisements, reduces the security settings for the Trusted Sites zone in Internet Explorer, and attempts to fraudulently install trusted publishers.

Symptoms

Your Symantec program detects this threat as Adware.CDT.

Transmission

This adware component can be manually installed, or installed as a component of another program.

Protection

Initial Rapid Release version 6 August 2004
Latest Rapid Release version 26 November 2009 revision 023
Initial Daily Certified version 6 August 2004
Latest Daily Certified version 26 November 2009 revision 025
Initial Weekly Certified release date 11 August 2004

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Technical Details