Joke-HauntPC
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Characteristics
This is not a trojan or virus. It is a practical joke program considered as a Potentially Unwanted Program
File: HAUNT.EXE
Hash: eb4bd5eaa1baa62286499e041c67e352
Upon execution, this program pops up the following dialogue box asking for the user’s first name.
When a user enters a name and clicks ok, it displays the following message:
Upon clicking the ok button, it opens wordpad and types the following message:
Then opens notepad and invites the user to play games.
Opens Solitaire and displays a message warning the user:
On clicking ok, displays the following message:
This program also drops the following files into %temp% folder
exorcism.EXE
hauntpc.exe
vdsrun30.dll
Where %temp% is the windows temporary folder
Once this program is stopped, it terminates notepad, wordpad and solitaire which was previously opened.
Aliases
Aliases
- Kaspersky - BadJoke.Win32.Hauntpc
