Tuesday, December 9, 2008

RemoteWatch Spyware

Removing RemoteWatch
Categories: Spyware,Hacker Tool
Spyware can even change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds,
different home pages, and loss of Internet or other programs.
In an attempt to increase the understanding of spyware, a more formal classification
of its included software types is captured under the term privacy-invasive software.
These utilities are designed to penetrate remote computers
in order to use them as zombies (by using backdoors) or to download other malicious programs to computer.

Exploits use vulnerabilities in operating systems and applications to achieve the same result.

RemoteWatch Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Monitor.Win32.RemoteWatch,Monitor.Win32.ReomoteWatch.a;
[McAfee]Generic PUP,Generic PUP.e;
[Other]Trojan Horse

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%COMMON_STARTUP%]\remotewatch.lnk
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\remotewatch.exe
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.dat
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\remotewatch.INI
[%COMMON_STARTUP%]\remotewatch.lnk
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\remotewatch.exe
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.dat
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\remotewatch.INI

How to detect RemoteWatch:

Files:
[%COMMON_STARTUP%]\remotewatch.lnk
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\remotewatch.exe
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.dat
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\remotewatch.INI
[%COMMON_STARTUP%]\remotewatch.lnk
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\remotewatch.exe
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.dat
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\remotewatch\unins000.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\remotewatch.INI

Registry Keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\remotewatch_is1

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

Removing RemoteWatch:

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