Friday, December 12, 2008

WinxDefender Ransomware

Removing WinxDefender
Categories: Ransomware
The term ransomware is commonly used to describe such software,
although the field known as cryptovirology predates the term "ransomware".

This type of ransom attack can be accomplished by (for example) attaching
a specially crafted file/program to an e-mail message and sending this to the victim.

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%DESKTOP%]\WinXDefender.lnk
[%DESKTOP%]\WinXDefender.lnk

How to detect WinxDefender:

Files:
[%DESKTOP%]\WinXDefender.lnk
[%DESKTOP%]\WinXDefender.lnk

Folders:
[%APPDATA%]\WinXDefender
[%COMMON_PROGRAMS%]\WinXDefender
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\WinXDefender

Registry Keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\programs\winxdefender

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

Removing WinxDefender:

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