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  Fake Anti Spyware.PC-Cleaner Technical Details
 Category Fake Anti Spyware
 Discovered   3/26/2008 3:56:00 PM
 Modified   3/26/2008 5:53:00 PM
 Threat Level Critical
 Description PC-Cleaner is rogue Security Program. It is a Fake Antispyware; PC-Cleaner is known to be pushed/advertised by various trojan horse programs. It uses aggressive and deceptive techniques to frighten the user into purchasing the program. It gives exaggerated report and claims of spyware found or false positives but not remove spyware unless the user purchases the program.
 Summary -
 Processes   N/A
 Drivers   N/A
 Folder Created   C:\Program Files\PC-Cleaner
 Browsed Site   http://bignastyworld.info/, http://zonevipxxx.info/

When the Fake Anti Spyware is executed, it creates the following files:
 
Name Version Publisher Signature (MD5) File Size (in KB)
..\com\pcsd.dll     e87c046d8e08d8b60397a201487d6775  
..\com\pcsd.dll     83c3904f8515204f721d688f20f0d7ed 253952
..\pc-cleaner\pc-cleaner.exe     07360231650ac250081816b13cf5f041  
..\pc-cleaner\pc-cleaner.exe 2.0.2.1 PC-Cleaner.com 55672dc912f0cd8692b67790cad5e71d 1351680
..\desktop\pc-cleaner.lnk       1486

 When the Fake Anti Spyware is executed, it creates the following Registry entries:
 
..\software\pc-cleaner
..\software\classes\allfilesystemobjects\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\pcsd
..\software\classes\clsid\{10f0c2a9-8e38-43e3-204d-45524c494e20}
..\software\classes\clsid\{1d9cfbb1-19da-4edb-b368-4598d439afe0}
..\software\classes\clsid\{5fe53d1b-59f9-48f4-8094-47211bb778b3}
..\software\classes\clsid\{8bd58549-bb16-480e-8530-3f957ae09b51}
..\software\classes\clsid\{ee9598b0-2e2f-4658-bb64-10b7a253bc14}
..\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved\"{5FE53D1B-59F9-48F4-8094-47211BB778B3}"
..\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\pc-cleaner
..\software\pc-cleaner

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