Sunday, November 16, 2008

Backdoor.Psychward Backdoor

Removing Backdoor.Psychward
Categories: Backdoor
Backdoors are the most dangerous type of Trojans and the most popular.
Backdoors open infected machines to external control via Internet.
They function in the same way as legal remote administration programs used by system administrators.
This makes them difficult to detect.

Backdoors are installed and launched without the consent of the user of computer.
Often the backdoor will not be visible in the log of active programs.

Once a backdoor has been successfully launched, the computer is wide open.
Backdoor functions can include:


  • Launching/ deleting files

  • Sending/ receiving files

  • Deleting data

  • Displaying notification

  • Rebooting the machine

  • Executing files




Backdoors are used by virus writers to detect and download confidential information,
execute malicious code, destroy data, include the machine in bot networks and so forth.
Backdoors combine the functionality of most other types of in one package.

Backdoors have one especially dangerous sub-class: variants that can propagate like worms.

Backdoor.Psychward Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Backdoor.Psychward.g;
[McAfee]BackDoor-CA;
[F-Prot]security risk or a "backdoor" program;
[Panda]Backdoor Program;
[Computer Associates]Win32.WPW.B

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%SYSTEM%]\dload.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\dload.exe

How to detect Backdoor.Psychward:

Files:
[%SYSTEM%]\dload.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\dload.exe

Removing Backdoor.Psychward:

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