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Spyware-SpyAnytime

Type
Program
SubType
Spyware
Discovery Date
05/13/2005
Minimum DAT
4491 (05/13/2005)
Updated DAT
4666 (01/03/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
05/13/2005
Description Modified
12/30/2005 1:54 AM (PT)

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT 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.

Distribution

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It is a commercial system monitoring "spy" application designed to log all activity performed on the host computer. It can be put into a "stealth" mode such that no obvious indication is given that it's installed or running. A user interface is displayed on launching the installation executable. A license agreement is shown as well.

Privacy

There are profound privacy implications for any users of a computer on which this software is installed. Screenshots, keylogs, applications, file and folder activity and websites visited are recorded.



Installation

File: sasetup.exe
Hash: 8b6c2716c51d67e320d69811c1e60fc3

Upon installation of this program, the following changes occur on the user's system.

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%WinDir% = \WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM (Windows 9x/ME), \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows XP), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files
%UserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER] (Windows NT/2000/XP).
%AllUserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\All Users (Windows NT/2000/XP).

Files Added

  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\sysmgr32.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\unins000.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\unins000.dat
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\license.txt
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\help.chm
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\faq.url
  • %ProgramFiles%\SpyAnytime\website.url
  • %SystemDir%\keybhook.dll
  • %SystemDir%\vb5stkit.dll
  • %SystemDir%\XPbutton.ocx
  • %SystemDir%\ijl11.dll

The activity logs and screenshots are saved in the following location:
"%AllUserProfile%\Application Data\sysdata"

Registry

Upon execution, the program hooks itself to system startup, by creating the following run entry in system registry.

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run | sysmgr32  "Value data"="sa2"

Aliases

Aliases

  • Spyware.Sa_PCSpy.b (Symantec)