Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Spybot Trojan

Removing Spybot
Categories: Trojan,Worm,Backdoor,DoS
This category includes a variety of Trojans that damage victim machines or
threaten data integrity, or impair the functioning of the victim machine.
Worms can be classified by installation method, launch method and finally according
to characteristics standard to all malware: polymorphism, stealth etc.

Many of the worms which managed to cause significant outbreaks use more then
one propagation method as well as more than one infection technique.

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.

These programs attack web servers by sending numerous requests to the specified server,
often causing it to crash under an excessive volume of requests.

DoS trojans conduct such attacks from a single computer with the consent of the user.

Worms can carry a DoS procedure as part of their payload.

Spybot Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Backdoor.IRCBot.gen,Backdoor.Spyboter.gen,Worm.P2P.SpyBot.gen;
[Eset]Win32/SpyBot.WP worm,Win32/SpyBot.GA worm;
[Panda]W32/Spybot.gen.worm,Backdoor Program;
[Computer Associates]Win32/SpyBot.Variant!P2P!Worm,Win32.Spybot.PP,Win32/P2P.SpyBot.Worm,Win32.Spybot.IA,Win32/Spybot.Worm

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

How to detect Spybot:

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

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Removing Spybot:

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