Can anyone tell me exactly what awi.exe does please ?

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tony.shell

Does anyone know or can point me at a web page
that explains what this one does in detail please?

tony
 
I dont want to remove it I want to know what it does
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If the www.spywareinfo.com site were available, I recall there was a
list of the various CWS variants and a description of them which might
include mentioning awi.exe. But, alas, it is unreachable (for me) so
the next best route is a Google search on it, where I find mention that
it is prevalent in porn and warez sites or newsgroups.

Knowing in what path is the awi.exe file and what is reported when you
right-click on it and check its Version tab for its properties might
clue you in as to who distributed it and, if a known or contact-able
developer, then you could ask them. You could also open it in Notepad
or a hex editor to look for strings that might identify what it does and
who made it.
 
Does anyone know or can point me at a web page
that explains what this one does in detail please?
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Depends on the particular awi.exe file. File names, as such, don't
mean much. However, you might be interested in what a guy named Tom
had to report here:

http://www.rikmerle.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7553

Is this the DVD sw you're having a problem with?

Out of curiosity, I downloaded the DVD software and ran Kaspersy with
it's extra def files. It found two different AdWare items in several
files. One malware it calls AdvWare.NavExcel The other it calls
AdvWare.HelpExpress
However, these were not found in a awi.exe file ... they were found in
several other files in the software install package.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
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awi.exe is a piece of malware that is distributed with other programs
for example it is known to have been included in certain warez versions
of powerstrip

it can be detected by many anti-virus software packages such as ad-aware

I know how to get rid of such stuff ... what I'm looking for is
information on what this particular one does

ALL I want to know is its functions
 
awi.exe is a piece of malware that is distributed with other programs
for example it is known to have been included in certain warez versions
of powerstrip

it can be detected by many anti-virus software packages such as ad-aware
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AdAware is not a antivirus product. What does AdAware call the adware?
What other "packages" do detect the adware, and what names do they
use? What malware/parasite name?
I know how to get rid of such stuff ... what I'm looking for is
information on what this particular one does

ALL I want to know is its functions
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If the particular file you're interested in is detected by (actual)
antivirus products (which it may not be), you could upload it for
scanning at several sites to see if you get a malware name. Then it
might be possible to get a description from a av vendor's site.

Lacking that, another approach would be to contact Lavasoft and the
other vendors that you claim offer detection and ask them if they can
supply you with the info you seek.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
AdAware is not a antivirus product. What does AdAware call the adware?
What other "packages" do detect the adware, and what names do they
use? What malware/parasite name?
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please remove your head from your anus before replying again
 
please remove your head from your anus before replying again
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And what exactly was that brilliant comment directed at? I suppose
you're another confused gnubie who believes Trojans, RATs, Backdoors,
spyware, adware and various and other sundry malwares are viruses?

No wonder there's confusion since the antivirus vendors have long been
detecting Trojans and other non-viral malware. But Lavasoft is
definitely not a antivirus vendor. Adware is not viral. Neither is
spyware. Spybot doesn't deal with viruses either. To qualify as a
antivirus product, the product must deal with viruses.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
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please remove your head from your anus before replying again
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Since you didn't bother to qualify why you thought null's post was
irrelevant or inappropriate, your comment is irrelevant and
inappropriate. Try explaining why you thought null's post was rectally
introverted. But then ,based on your response, no one with intelligence
beyond a 2-year old will lend credence to your puerile lambast. And, of
course, your post was, oh, so helpful to the OP, too. Yeah, right.

The problem with anti-malware software is that they don't often give you
the details of the threat. At Lavasoft, you can try to perform a search
but the search won't look inside the threat descriptions to let you,
say, find a file that may be mentioned by a specific name. You have to
search by the threat name that Lavasoft uses to identify it. Since the
OP mentioned that Ad-Aware will detect the threat then the OP should
also have a name for that threat so the OP could then do a search at
Lavasoft to get some info on that threat or do a Google search on it.
If Spybot detects it then you can use that name in Spybot's support page
to search for info on the threat by that name. A filename is often not
a sufficient "grip" on which to research a potential threat.
 
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