PornDial-143
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Characteristics
This is a porn dialer application that installs itself to run at system startup. A porn dialer is simply a program that is used to dial into a pornographic "service". Some porn dialers do not advertise that extremely high phone bills may result from using their service.
/PROGRAM detection is being added for this "potentially unwanted application". The current command-line scanner makes use of such detections, as does VirusScan 7.
The
"msite18.exe" (102.932 bytes) is a 32 bit executable file, it's packed internally with UPX. When run, the program copies itself silently into the %windows\%system directory, example on win2000: copied itself to
"c:\winnt\system32\msite18.exe"
PornDial-143 doesn't show it's presence visible but it gets loaded at system start. It makes entries to the registry such as:
-HKEY_CLASSES\ROOT\MS-Connect.Scriptfile\shell\open\command
"c:\winnt\system32\msite18.exe" %1
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\
MS-Connect "c:\winnt\system32\msite18.exe"
In the windows taskmanager, the process msite18.exe is visble and can be killed manually. (Note that Virusscan is able to kill the process automatically.)
