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WhileUSurf

Posted: March 28, 2006

WhileUSurf is a malicious adware application that shows numerous commercial advertisements. It also can corrupt Internet Explorer and severely decrease overall computer performance. It can be secretly installed on some suspicious web sites. WhileUSurf places its files into the default computer folder and modifies the registry, so it could be started automatically on every computer startup.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 wys.dll
    2 wys.exe
    3 wys5.dll

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunspool=%CurrentFolder%wys.exe/startupHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallWhileYouSurf
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