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Keylog-Kidlogger

Type
Program
SubType
Keylogger
Discovery Date
02/09/2006
Minimum DAT
4693 (02/09/2006)
Updated DAT
4693 (02/09/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
02/09/2006
Description Modified
02/17/2006 3:29 AM (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.

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Summary

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program". It is a keylogger application designed to capture all keystrokes that are typed by the user. A user interface is displayed on launching the installation executable.

Installation

File: kidlogger.exe
Hash: d46de171172f8e8f1c74e7c4f78891c5

Upon installation of this program, the following changes occur in the user's system.

System Changes

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

Files Added

  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\dsk_bmp4.exe  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\hooks.dll  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\license.txt  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\MainWnd.exe  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\readme.txt  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\report.exe  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\snap.bat  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\Teslain KidLogger.zip  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\unins000.dat  
  • %ProgramFiles%\Teslain KidLogger\unins000.exe
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\KidLogger\Teslain KidLogger.lnk
  • %AllUserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\KidLogger\Uninstall Teslain KidLogger.lnk 

Registry

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Run "MS Shell Services"
      Type: REG_SZ
      Data: c:\Program Files\Teslain KidLogger\MainWnd.exe -m
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\RunServices "MS Shell Services"
      Type: REG_SZ
      Data: c:\Program Files\Teslain KidLogger\MainWnd.exe -m
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Teslain KidLogger_is1

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