Your Order For Spy Doctor .......

[Red Devil]

is here and $79 has been debited from your account. Click here etc etc.


Yeah right!

This is what the email called spy doctor attempts to install in your system:

The Small.coy trojan downloader belongs to a family of known primitive trojan downloaders that have a download URL encrypted in the end of their files. The URL to this particular trojan downloader (smsender.exe file) was spammed in e-mails to a large number of addresses. When downloaded and run by a recipient the trojan downloader attempts to download and activate a file named installer2.0.26.exe from a website hosted in Canada.

The downloaded file is detected as 'Trojan-PSW.Win32.Agent.fy' and it is technically a trojan dropper. Once activated, it drops a DLL file and registers it as a component of Internet Explorer. This DLL file is the main spying component and it is activated when Internet Explorer is run. The spying component collects and sends out the following data:

• Data from webforms that a user fills in including the URLs of the site
• POP and SMTP (e-mail) account login names and passwords
• HTTP e-mail account login names and passwords
• MSN passwords
• Outlook account information
• Internet Explorer passwords for protected sites
• IE autocomplete fields data
• Information about an infected computer
• Windows cached passwords

The trojan can also create a batch file that deletes system files from the Program Files and System Root (main Windows directory) folders.

[Skybird]

White letters on light grey background...

[TteFAboB]

If you highlight the text to read it your computer will be infected, that's what is written. Now excuse me, I have to reformat my hard-drive to get rid of this trojan.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Skybird

White letters on light grey background...

I know the feeling Skybird.

here we go again, highlight the text just to read it.

[kiwi_2005]

Yeah i caught a trogan a week ago from downloading a ultility of that download.com site which is usually safe. My antivirs/spyware didn't detect anything then when i went to install all hell broke loose and my pc's came to a standstill, webbrowsing, opening folders etc., was so slow, i would get on startup a window popping up saying a program is asking you to dial in to google.com???

Reformatted.

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by STEED

I know the feeling Skybird.

here we go again, highlight the text just to read it.

Yeah. Life is tough.

[Linton]

When you get infected apart from reformatting what else can you do?

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by Linton

When you get infected apart from reformatting what else can you do?

You can boot to Safe Mode, then run Adaware, Spybot and an antivirus (update them first with the latest definition file). When you try to disinfect the system and Windows is not in Safe Mode then it´s likely that the infection can´t be removed due to locked files.