Malware Catcher
Posted: April 29, 2009
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 10 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Malware Catcher is a rogue anti-spyware program that comes from the same group of hackers that created other fake security applications for the family such as Malware Catcher comes from either the malwarecatcher.net website or a Trojan horse infection. If infected with this Trojan, you will get bogus popup messages and security alerts that display notices stating that your PC is infected with parasites. The messages are part of a scam to get you to purchase the full Malware Catcher application.
Malware Catcher is programmed to load at startup of your system. Once Malware Catcher is loaded, it starts to automatically scan your system for malware. Malware Catcher's scan results are phony and should not be trusted. It is possible that Malware Catcher can decrease system performance and potentially harm your system.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:SetupReleaseXP[1].exe
File name: SetupReleaseXP[1].exeSize: 2.4 MB (2400527 bytes)
MD5: 8a3eca22df5226d8ebf831291785f981
Detection count: 96
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MCatcher.exe
File name: MCatcher.exeSize: 2.03 MB (2031104 bytes)
MD5: fd72c475022837e158ae1cbc289b2aed
Detection count: 76
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MC4db2.exe
File name: MC4db2.exeSize: 2.1 MB (2100224 bytes)
MD5: 5a3ee1eb22193d94efa60596ab5b8582
Detection count: 53
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MC5a22.exe
File name: MC5a22.exeSize: 2.04 MB (2046976 bytes)
MD5: 48aa4ab74c384220adab681f77e5eeb9
Detection count: 31
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MCd3d4.exe
File name: MCd3d4.exeSize: 2.04 MB (2045952 bytes)
MD5: d6ee606ddd564831355fe7792337546f
Detection count: 25
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MC53be.exe
File name: MC53be.exeSize: 2.04 MB (2046976 bytes)
MD5: 6296ba949000fa569e5d88d5e32a1125
Detection count: 20
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MCatcher.exe
File name: MCatcher.exeSize: 2.03 MB (2030080 bytes)
MD5: c8757b4a6e35a1579805ea4fada55069
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MC424f.exe
File name: MC424f.exeSize: 2.04 MB (2043904 bytes)
MD5: b2b80535929740ca7430a090075e3112
Detection count: 13
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
Work[1].exe
File name: Work[1].exeSize: 149.5 KB (149504 bytes)
MD5: 55c9ab15af39f4868a892dfd2e0b9951
Detection count: 10
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
MCatcher.exe
File name: MCatcher.exeSize: 2.12 MB (2124288 bytes)
MD5: 0abee62c5ece7a5a1ac7e71a021e69a2
Detection count: 4
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
ActivatedSetupReleaseXP[1].exe
File name: ActivatedSetupReleaseXP[1].exeSize: 2.4 MB (2403281 bytes)
MD5: a3ced1fd92e160b982be91343de1d058
Detection count: 3
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
When a Cleaner is use it will detect brkoen files in the registry though when a program is install it makes diferent copies in diferent sub folders of the registry so you can manually look for them if you know the file name or program name in the registry window . open registry editor by typing regedit in the registry window click on computer to select it and in the tab edit click Find and type the name of the program or file tyopu are looking for the when you delete press F3 to continue to look furter more until no more copies of the file or program is found, though I must tell you this is very delicate process and you should know exactly what you R looking for otherwise you may make it worse. so I sujest if the CCleaner have a way to back up the registry . do it before you start deletions of registry values.