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Adware.Slagent

Posted: May 19, 2010

Adware.Slagent is a potentially unwanted adware program designed to deliver various advertisements to the tageted user's system. Adware.Slagent also contains a keylogger program that can capture all user keystrokes, including confidential details such usernames, passwords and credit card numbers. Adware.Slagent can also compromise security products by emulating mouse clicks on dialog windows. For example, when a security product pops up a dialog box asking for user permission to block suspicious activity, a threat may click the Allow button to enable its malicious payload. Adware.Slagent should be terminated immediately using an updated malware remover.

Aliases

Generic Downloader.x!bjc (McAfee)
Mal/Generic-A (Sophos)
Trojan:Win32/Meredrop (Microsoft)
Trojan.Win32.Vaklik (Ikarus)
Win-Trojan/Vaklik.219372 (AhnLab)
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