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Overview

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT(tm) recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.

Installation:

File:   SETUP.EXE
Hash: a7999ab3e61f0488f4cc992872678556

Upon installation of this unwanted application the following changes occur in the user's system.

Following folder is created:

• %Program Files%\Free KGB Key Logger

Following files are added:

• U.exe
• Help.chm
• systemdll.dll
• Systems.exe
• uninstall.exe
• uninstall.ini

Following registry entries are added:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Free KGB Key Logger
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Free KGB Key Logger

This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes that are typed by the user.

This application is capable of sending the logged information via e-mail to specified address.

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) AVERT(tm) recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

This is not a virus or a Trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.

Installation:

File:   SETUP.EXE
Hash: a7999ab3e61f0488f4cc992872678556

Upon installation of this unwanted application the following changes occur in the user's system.

Following folder is created:

• %Program Files%\Free KGB Key Logger

Following files are added:

• U.exe
• Help.chm
• systemdll.dll
• Systems.exe
• uninstall.exe
• uninstall.ini

Following registry entries are added:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Free KGB Key Logger
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
  CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Free KGB Key Logger

This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes that are typed by the user.

This application is capable of sending the logged information via e-mail to specified address.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

N/A