IWon and Retrogamer Toolbars Contain Potentially Unwanted Programs
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The Websites: www.iwon.com and retrogamer.iwon.com
This is how the Iwon toolbars looks:
The IWon and Retrogamer toolbars installation files were scanned at virustotal.com and 11 out of 46 antivirus software detected a threat. The following threats were found:
File names: Retrogamer.exe and iWon.exe
Detection: 11 / 46
Analysis date: 2013-03-24
Antivirus Threat
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AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.FunWeb
Avast Win32:FunWeb-J [PUP]
AVG Zango
Comodo ApplicUnwnt.Win32.AdWare.FunWeb.DA
ESET-NOD32 Win32/AdInstaller
F-Prot W32/MyWeb.G
Fortinet Riskware/MyWebSearch
Kaspersky not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.MyWebSearch.gen
Kingsoft Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V1210
VIPRE MyWebSearch.J (v) (not malicious)
If you have already installed these toolbars, click here to use AdwCleaner to remove the Potentially Unwanted Programs that were installed.. AdwCleaner is a very small program and doesn't require any installation.
Based on the information that we were able to gather, we do not recommend installing the IWon and Retrogamer toolbars.
Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers in email samples on this website may have been impersonated.
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