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Spyware-SmokingGun

Type
Program
SubType
Spyware
Discovery Date
02/28/2006
Minimum DAT
4707 (02/28/2006)
Updated DAT
4707 (02/28/2006)
Minimum Engine
5.1.00
Description Added
02/28/2006
Description Modified
03/01/2006 2:16 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.

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 performed on the host computer. Screenshots, keylogs, application usage and web browsing history can be recorded by this program.

A license agreement is displayed during installation.

Installation

File: smokinggun_setup.exe
Hash: d0e178ca34e1b4beef8bd871beda8417

System Changes

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

Files Added

  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\Smoking Gun!.lnk
  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\Uninstall.lnk
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\SentinelMon.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\SmokingGun.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\uninst.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\wait.htm
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\data\AppHx_02_24_2006.imh
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\data\Http_02_24_2006.imh
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\data\Key_02_24_2006.imh

Registry

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun Settings
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\clsr
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC Sentinel Software
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\SmokingGun.exe
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "sentinelmon"
    Data: C:\Program Files\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Smoking Gun!\sentinelmon.exe

Aliases

Aliases

  • Spyware.SmokingGun (Symantec)