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Spyware-ISpy

Type
Program
SubType
Spyware
Discovery Date
01/02/2006
Minimum DAT
4665 (01/02/2006)
Updated DAT
4665 (01/02/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
01/02/2006
Description Modified
06/14/2006 10:20 PM (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 on the host computer such as keystrokes, applications, websites visited, files and folders accessed, disk activity and chat conversations.



Installation

File: isn-setup.exe
Hash: 940f366f7bb9bdd481d2c567c5f93dac

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):
%WinDir% = C:\WINDOWS (Windows 9x/ME/XP), C:\WINNT (Windows NT/2000)
%ProgramFiles% = C:\Program Files
%AllUserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\All Users (Windows NT/2000/XP).

Files Added

  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\Help Documentation.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\iSpyNOW Tray Companion.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\License Agreement.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\Readme.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\Remove iSpyNOW.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\iSpyNOW\Visit the Official iSpyNOW Website.lnk
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\header.gif
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\isn_builder.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\isnhelp.htm
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\license.txt
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\Readme.txt
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\uninstal.log
  • %ProgramFiles%\ISN\Visit the Official iSpyNOW Website.url
  • %WinDir%\isntrayopt.dat
  • %WinDir%\softmod32.exe

Registry

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\iSpyNOW
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "isntray" = "C:\Program Files\ISN\isn_builder.exe"

Aliases

Aliases

  • Spyware.C0F234D4 (Trend Micro)
  • Spyware.ISpynow (Symantec)