McAfee > Theat Center > Virus Detail Page

Overview

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

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.

Summary

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.
This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes typed by the user.



Installation:

File:    Spytector.exe
Hash:  cfde653abd8047b2c50cd6f764c41227

System Changes:

Registry Changes

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spytector
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spytector\1.2.5
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
  \CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Spytector 1.2.5

Directories Added

• %Program Files%\Spytector
• %Documents and Settings%\Start Menu\Programs\Spytector

Files Added

• Spytector.exe
• Help.chm
• ReadMe.txt
• License.html
• Spytector Purchase.url

Symptoms

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) detection. It is not a virus or trojan. PUPs are any piece of software which a reasonably security-or privacy-minded computer user may want to be informed of.

Characteristics

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.

Summary

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a potentially unwanted program.
This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes typed by the user.



Installation:

File:    Spytector.exe
Hash:  cfde653abd8047b2c50cd6f764c41227

System Changes:

Registry Changes

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spytector
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spytector\1.2.5
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
  \CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Spytector 1.2.5

Directories Added

• %Program Files%\Spytector
• %Documents and Settings%\Start Menu\Programs\Spytector

Files Added

• Spytector.exe
• Help.chm
• ReadMe.txt
• License.html
• Spytector Purchase.url

Symptoms

Symptoms -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

N/A This is not a virus or trojan.

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

N/A