Adware.FavoriteMan

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Updated: February 13, 2007 11:37:05 AM

Type: Adware

Risk Impact: Medium

File Names: casldr.exe casldr.dll favorite.dll favman.dll favboot.dll ofrg.dll im64.dll ss32.dll ATPartn

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

Behavior

Adware.FavoriteMan installs itself as a Browser Helper Object and attempts to contact remote servers to download new executable content. Typically these programs are new adware components.

Symptoms

The existence of new URLs in Internet Explorer's Favorites menu.

Transmission

This program has been reported as being available on the Web. This adware program must be manually installed. However, there are several known programs that have Adware.FavoriteMan within them and that install it as the program itself is installed.

Protection

Initial Rapid Release version March 27, 2004
Latest Rapid Release version July 2, 2009 revision 040
Initial Daily Certified version March 27, 2004
Latest Daily Certified version July 3, 2009 revision 004
Initial Weekly Certified release date March 28, 2004

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