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SecurityHelpCenter.com

Posted: April 21, 2009

Securityhelpcenter.com is a rogue website that sponsors the dangerous fake spyware remover Personal Antivirus. Due to a backdoor trojan, your computer's browser settings are altered in order to redirect your web-surfing activities to a scam warning, which reads:

"Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer! This web site probably contains malicious software program, which can cause damage to your computer or perform actions without your permission. Your computer may be infected after visiting such a web site. We recommend you to install (or activate) antivirus security software."

If you follow this SecurityHelpCenter.com warning, you're taken to a web page to buy Personal Antivirus.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Personal Antivirus.lnk
    2 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db
    3 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\config.cfg
    4 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Timeout.inf
    5 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Urls.inf
    6 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\settings.ini
    7 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\uill.ini
    8 %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\Uninstall Personal Antivirus.lnk
    9 %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iGSh.png
    10 %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iMSh.png
    11 %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iPSh.png
    12 %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\log.txt
    13 %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini
    14 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Personal Antivirus.lnk
    15 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus
    16 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Personal Antivirus Home Page.lnk
    17 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Personal Antivirus.lnk
    18 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Purchase License.lnk
    19 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\activate.ico
    20 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db
    21 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\DBInfo.ver
    22 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080614.db
    23 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080618x.db
    24 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Explorer.ico
    25 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages
    26 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAEs.lng
    27 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAFr.lng
    28 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAGer.lng
    29 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAIt.lng
    30 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\unins000.dat
    31 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\uninstall.ico
    32 c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\working.log
    33 c:\WINDOWS\system32\log.txt

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "PrS"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Personal Antivirus"HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINEHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngineHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Personal Antivirus_is1
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