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MyCustomIE

Posted: March 28, 2006

MyCustomIE is an illegal advertising application, which tracks user activity in the Internet and collects information about user web surfing habits. It sends gathered data to a predefined web site, receives and shows undesirable commercial advertisements. MyCustomIE works as an add-on to Internet Explorer and runs every time the user starts the browser. Parasite files are located in the default computer directory C:WindowsSystem, C:WindowsSystem32 or C:WinntSystem32.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 myie.dll

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCustomIE.BHOHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCustomIE.BHO1
  • The following CLSID's were detected:
    HKEY..\..\{CLSID Path}AAD9A825-7C82-4121-AB7C-C33BE08535889DA65FF0-676F-48C7-9253-0020417F97EECBEFB350-ED5B-4115-B846-C1041676B388
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