WNAD Description:

No installation disclosure. Displays ads. Causes browser popups. Still live. The popular Yo Mama Osama shooting game distributes an adware Trojan.This online game promises a free cell phone booster to players successfull in "taking out" Osama bid Ladin. The adware Trojan monitors Internet usage and feeds pop-up advertising to the user long after the game is over. Uninstalling Yo Mama Osama removes the game and leaves the offensive adware. When installing Yo Mama Osama for game play, files specific to the adware Trojan are downloaded and installed on the user's system. These include WNAD.EXE, WNAD.DAT, WNAD-UPDATE.EXE and WNAD.LGC. These files are placed in the Windows folder and a shortcut to WNAD.EXE is added to the Startup folder.

Also known as: Twisted Humor, WinAD, Wnad.e, Yo Mama Osama

WNAD Automatic Removal:

Using Spyware Doctor to detect and remove WNAD AUTOMATICALLY!

WNAD Manual Removal:

Uninstalling the game will not remove the adware Trojan. The following steps should be taken for manual removal.

• Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and use End Task to close WNAD.EXE
• Browse to the Windows folder and delete WNAD.EXE, WNAD.DAT, WNAD-UPDATE.EXE and WNAD.LGC
• Remove the C:\Windows\Wnad.exe value from the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• Delete the shortcut for WNAD.EXE from the Start | Programs | Startup Folder

1. Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
   programfilesdir+\osama\osama.exe
   systemroot+\wnad.exe
   
2. Remove AutoRun Reference: Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
   
3. Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\wnad
   
4. Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
   programfilesdir+\osama\osama.exe
   systemroot+\wnad.dat
   systemroot+\wnad.exe
   wnad.exe
   wnad_adwarelog.txt
   
5. Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:
   programfilesdir+\osama

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