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Spyware-Actmon

Type
Program
SubType
Spyware
Discovery Date
07/08/2005
Minimum DAT
4531 (07/08/2005)
Updated DAT
5565 (03/26/2009)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
07/08/2005
Description Modified
05/29/2006 5:56 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.

Summary

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It is a system monitoring "spy" application designed to log all activity performed on the host computer.

Privacy

There are profound privacy and security implications for any users of a computer on which this software is installed. Screenshots, keylogs, instant messages, application usage and web browsing history can be recorded. A license agreement was displayed during installation of the application.



Installation

File: ACTMON-CM-SETUP.EXE
Hash: d1fb7a8a1fbb003d74389d18f3a888b2

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):

%SystemDir% = \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%UserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER] (Windows NT/2000/XP).
%AllUserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\All Users (Windows NT/2000/XP).

Files Added

  • %AllUserProfile%\Application Data\syswin\#tg#PRASHANTHXPVM1#.dat
  • %AllUserProfile%\Application Data\syswin\SupportLog_tg_PRASHANTHXPVM1.txt
  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ActMonCM\ActMon CM Control Center.lnk
  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\ActMonCM\ActMon Computer Monitoring Manual.lnk
  • %UserProfile%\Desktop\Spyware-ActMon\ACTMON-CM-SETUP.EXE
  • %SystemDir%\acmcc.exe
  • %SystemDir%\acm-manual.chm
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnl.exe
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnlb.dll
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnlb.exe
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnlc.dll
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnlc.vxd
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnld.dll
  • %SystemDir%\wskrnle.dll

Registry

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run "syswin"  Type: REG_SZ  Data: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\syswin.exe" -at
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\Run "wskrnl"  Type: REG_SZ  Data: "C:\WINDOWS\System32\wskrnl.exe" -at
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\syswin
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\syswin\Shared
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wskrnl
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\wskrnl\Shared
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\ACPI\PNP0303\4&5289e18&0\Control "ActiveService"  Old data: Kbdclass  New data: wskrnlc
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\wskrnlc
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wskrnlc

Aliases

Aliases

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