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Pcsecurityland.com

Posted: November 18, 2010

Pcsecurityland.com is a rogue website used to promote the fake security program Antivirus Action. Antivirus Action displays pop-up alerts claiming that the system is infected. The alerts will also prompt a user to purchase the "licensed" version of Antivirus Action in order to remove the purportedly detected malware. Do not purchase anything promoted on Pcsecurityland.com and have Antivirus Action removed from your system upon detection.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %Temp%\[random]\
    2 %Temp%\[random]\[random]agnz.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter "Enabled" = "0"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyEnable" = "1"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:33921"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}"[random]agnz.exe"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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