Fake Anti Spyware.Privacy Watcher Technical Details
Category
Fake Anti Spyware
Discovered
4/23/2008
11:47:00 AM
Modified
4/29/2008
13:11:00 PM
Threat Level
Critical
Description
Privacy Watcher 3.1
is a Rogue
Anti-Spyware
program. It is an
unwanted application. Privacy
Watcher 3.1 tries to
trick you into buying
it by claiming you
have been infected
with spyware and then
showing you false
error reports. Privacy
Watcher 3.1 does not
scan any spyware.
It scans legitimate
S/W Entries which
are always present
on PC and offers to purchase
product to
quarantine those
entries.
Summary
the hosts file
was updated with the
following url-to-ip
mappings : n/a the following http
urls were started
:
www.cleanpctool.com
download-es.com generated smtp
traffic : n/a
there was a new connection
established with a
remote irc server
: n/a
the following hidden
entries created :
n/a the following
internet connection
was established:
70.42.153.71:80
manual privacy watcher
downloaded
C:\Documents and
Settings\admin\Application
Data\Privacy Watcher
C:\Program Files\Privacy
Watcher
C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Start
Menu\Programs\Privacy
Watcher
Browsed
Sites
download.Privacy-watcher.com
When
the Fake Anti Spyware
is executed, it creates
the following files:
Name
Version
Publisher
Signature
(MD5)
File
Size (in Bytes)
..\privacy
watcher \privacy
watcher.exe
daa20d4ccdd691e8ff126aeb1c761e05
1831424
..\desktop\privacy
watcher.lnk
604
..\privacywatcher_setup.exe
3d84eeadc87c1cf6ec0925ed9c6cd2e3
1969664
When
the Fake Anti Spyware
is executed, it creates
the following Registry
entries:
NA
Snapshot
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