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To: sammy™ -_- who wrote (602)	7/8/2006 12:24:38 PM
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Threat Profile: SysProtect Risk Assessment - Home Users: N/A - Corporate Users: N/A Date Discovered: 4/6/2006 Date Added: 4/6/2006 Origin: N/A Length: N/A Type: Program SubType: Win32 DAT Required: 4735 Program Characteristics McAfee(R) AVERT 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 vil.nai.com for a list of Program detections added to the DATs. See vil.nai.com for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs. Distribution This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It purports to be an system repair/maintenance application, but requires paid registration before any issues found can be fixed. Many of the "invalid" items found appear suspect. This has been reported to be distributed in wild via trojan Vundo. Other incarnations of this software exist with the same model and similar web presences (for example WinFixer). When trojan Vundo is installed following installation screen is presented