Malwarescanner20.com
Malwarescanner20.com is a malicious website that promotes and persuades the user to install Spyware Guard 2008 which is a rogue anti-spyware program. Malwarescanner20.com fabricates system scans for infections. All of the results displayed on Malwarescanner20.com are bogus. Malwarescanner20.com can prove to be very annoying due to the numerous displays of fake system alerts pop ups. Spyware Guard 2008 and Malwarescanner20.com could be from the same group of attackers and both should be avoided in all situations.
File System Modifications
- The following files were created in the system:
# File Name 1 %Documents and settings%\user\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\olesys.dll 2 %Documents and settings%\user\Desktop\Spyware Guard 2008.lnk 3 %Documents and settings%\user\Start Menu\Programs\Spyware Guard 2008\Spyware Guard 2008.lnk 4 %Documents and settings%\user\Start Menu\Programs\Spyware Guard 2008\Uninstall.lnk 5 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\conf.cfg 6 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\mbase.vdb 7 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\quarantine.vdb 8 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\queue.vdb 9 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\spywareguard.exe 10 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\uninstall.exe 11 %ProgramFiles%\Spyware Guard 2008\vbase.vdb 12 %Windows%\reged.exe 13 %Windows%\spoolsystem.exe 14 %Windows%\sys.com 15 %Windows%\syscert.exe 16 %Windows%\sysexplorer.exe 17 %Windows%\vmreg.dll
Registry Modifications
- The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\"spywareguard" = "C:\Program Files\Spyware Guard 2008\spywareguard.exe"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Spyware GuardHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Spyware Guard 2008
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