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Keylog-Powerlogger

Type
Program
SubType
Keylogger
Discovery Date
09/21/2005
Minimum DAT
4587 (09/21/2005)
Updated DAT
5281 (04/24/2008)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
09/21/2005
Description Modified
02/02/2006 3:11 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:    power.exe
Hash: 8f6a72581abceeb72624aa2ea62d721c

Upon installation, this application captures all those keystrokes that are typed by the user.

           

This application has following advanced features:

  • Screenshot capture at regular interval(s).

         

  • Sends the logged information via e-mail to specified address.

         

  • Monitoring without user's notification.

         

This application is capable of monitoring user's web-activity and E-mail activity.

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