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Spyware-EasyKeylog

Type
Program
SubType
Spyware
Discovery Date
06/24/2005
Minimum DAT
4521 (06/24/2005)
Updated DAT
4521 (06/24/2005)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
06/24/2005
Description Modified
12/26/2005 4:24 AM (PT)

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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:   EPL.EXE
Hash: 804a2a3f54c3b326fb7369e84c2f200d

File:   EPLAGENT.DLL
Hash: c29e192fdea6a7c54b324f91e6715ad7

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

The following Registry keys are added:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EKL
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SOFTSAGA Easy Keyboard Logger
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run "EasyKeyboardLogger"
  • KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SOFTSAGA Easy Keyboard Logger "StartWithWindows"

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


The snapshot above shows that this application is capable of running in hide mode.

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