Virus 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 http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp
for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.
See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm
for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.
RemoteAdmin is a remote control program provided by Famatech http://www.famatech.com/
. This tool is made up of a client and a server component. The server component runs as a service on the remote XP/2000 computer. The service name can be "Remote Administrator service". Once the service is running, an administrator using a client program can view activity, take control, transfer files, and shutdown the remote system.
This application may have been installed by your system administrator for providing support for your machine. If this is the case then the alert on this detection should be ignored and may be excluded as described here:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm
However, this application has been abused by several trojan authors for malicious purposes.
The server component of this applications listens on TCP port 4899 by default.
The following registry entry may be associated with this program:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RAdmin