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Spyware-RedHanded.dr

Type
Program
SubType
Dropper
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
03/06/2006 5:57 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 spyware application which records instant message conversations on a user's computer and stores it in log files.

A license agreement is displayed during installation.

Installation

File: redhanded_setup.exe
Hash: 4ef6f55413de7fb87f77d8e1990148f2

System Changes

General defaults for typical environment variables (although they may be different, they usually are not):

%SystemDrive% = C:\
%ProgramFiles% = C:\Program Files
%UserProfile% = C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER] (Windows NT/2000/XP).

Files Added

  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\Red-Handed!.lnk
  • %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\Uninstall.lnk
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\RedHanded.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\SentinelListener.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\uninst.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\wait.htm
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\WinPcap_3_1.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\ini.imf
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\iniex.imf
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\iniexx.imf
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\iniexxx.imf
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\inixxx.imf
  • %ProgramFiles%\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!\data\log.txt
  • %SystemDrive%\ini.imf
  • %SystemDrive%\iniex.imf
  • %SystemDrive%\iniexx.imf
  • %SystemDrive%\iniexxx.imf
  • %SystemDrive%\inixxx.imf
  • %SystemDrive%\log.txt

Registry

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed\Settings
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\App Paths\RedHanded.exe
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC Sentinel Software
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC Sentinel Software\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PC Sentinel's Red-Handed!
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RedListener
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
    RedListener\Enum
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\
    RedListener\Security

Aliases

Aliases

  • Spyware.Redhanded (Symantec)