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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 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 is installed or running. An option that claims to inhibit many popular security software titles from detecting/disabling the application is also present. 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, email and a detailed application and web browsing history are recorded. Additionally, the software can be configured to upload logged data via email or FTP at regular intervals to any destination of choice.

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\SYSTEM32 (Windows 9x/ME/XP), \WINNT\SYSTEM32 (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = \Program Files

Files Added

* Although these files are added as a result of installing this application, they appear by themselves innocent and may already be present on a system and used by other applications. Therefore, they are not included in detection or removal.

• Installer: 007ssinstall.exe (2338 KB)
  MD5: 696AD9816580C979435E514E8837F24D
  
• %SystemDir%\vb5stkit.dll* (29 KB)
  
• %SystemDir%\sysmnt.dat (1 KB)
  
• %SystemDir%\ssmon.lnk (1 KB)
  
• %SystemDir%\msinet.ocx* (108 KB)
  
• %SystemDir%\ijl11pro.dll* (69 KB)
  
• %SystemDir%\ansmtp.dll* (132 KB)
  
• %WinDir%\sslogo.bmp (1 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\
  website.url (1 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\
  svchost.exe (145 KB)
  MD5: 1DEFFBA6BF24B1BFD976669FB76C3231
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\
  license.txt (2 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\
  help.chm (143 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\
  faq.url (1 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\ssdata\
  Note: The above folder holds all logged data
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\ssdata\
  scrdata\
  Note: Screenshots are stored in this subfolder
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\ssdata\
  scr.dat (1 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\ssdata\
  lgstat.ini (1 KB)
  
• c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\dao\system32_\ssdata\
  apps.dat (1 KB)
  
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\start menu\programs\007 spy software\user manual.lnk (1 KB)
  
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\start menu\programs\007 spy software\spy software online.lnk (1 KB)
  
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\start menu\programs\007 spy software\online faq.lnk (1 KB)
  
• c:\documents and settings\administrator\start menu\programs\007 spy software\007 spy software.lnk (1 KB)
  

Registry

The following registry keys are created:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  "WinLiveUpdate"="(hex data)"
  
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  "WinService32"="svchost"
  

Network Impact

If the software is configured to transmit logs via email or FTP, additional overhead in bandwidth would result.

Removal

Aliases

Aliases

N/A