The component is part of the TMRG platform which will track various behaviors of web browsing habits including tracking sites and domains visited as well as ads clicked. MSVCR71.DLL is the runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run applications developed with Visual C++ and is recompiled by TMRG, Inc.. While the file properties state the file is developed by 'Microsoft Corporation', this is not the case and it is designed just to look like a legitimate Microsoft system file. The module MSVCR71.DLL, “Microsoft® C Runtime Library” by TMRG has been detected as adware by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. Although a detection has been made for this resource, it is generally a commonly distributed 3rd-party library and is typically safe by itself.