Behavior
Adware.SecondThought is an adware program that downloads and displays advertisements.
Symptoms
The files are detected as Adware.SecondThought.
Transmission
This adware program must be manually installed.
File names: install011.exe
When Adware.SecondThought is executed, it performs the following actions:
Downloads the file, Stcloader.exe, from
www.2nd-thought.com.
Creates the file, %System%\Stcloader.exe.
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Note: %System% is a variable. By default, this is C:\Windows\System (Windows 95/98/Me), C:\Winnt\System32 (Windows NT/2000), or C:\Windows\System32 (Windows XP).
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Adds the value:
"stcloader"="%System%\stcloader.exe"
to the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
so that Adware.SecondThought runs when you start Windows.