Trojan.Camec.A

Trojan.Camec.A is one component of a multi-part Trojan infection that turns off certain Windows functions and sends system-identifying information to remote criminals. Because Trojan.Camec.A hides its corrupt .dll files in your Windows folder and has no readily-visible symptoms, you shouldn't try to detect or delete Trojan.Camec.A without the help of advanced anti-virus software. However, Trojan.Camec.A's lack of visibility doesn't indicate a lack of danger, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that Trojan.Camec.A's behavior is indicative of a setup for other attacks that can include criminals remotely-controlling your PC or the installation of other types of malicious programs such as rogue security applications.

How Trojan.Camec.A Works Hand-in-Hand with Other Camec Trojans

SpywareRemove.com research team has found that all variants of Trojan.Camec.A are built from the ground up, to cooperate with closely-related Trojans; if you think you've been infected by Trojan.Camec.A, it's almost certain that you're infected by two of its partners, as well. Trojan.Camec.A has two responsibilities in its little triplet ring, the first of which consists of updating another part of the infection.

Trojan.Camec.A's responsibilities also involve a somewhat more noticeable function: Trojan.Camec.A disables the Windows User Account Control or UAC. This deactivates the natural Windows function (as of Vista and higher versions of Windows) to control which user account can use various applications. More importantly, Trojan.Camec.A disables Internet Explorer's Protected Mode. This attack leaves your PC open to other actions that Trojan.Camec.A and its fellow Camec Trojans may take to harm your computer.

Meanwhile, TrojanSpy:Win32/Camec.A collects information that could be used to identify your computer and stores that data on a remote, criminal-accessible server. Since TrojanSpy:Win32/Camec.A is kept updated by Trojan.Camec.A, this spyware component of a Camec.A infection can alter its behavior and functions and may be able to gather other information, such as account login names, passwords, or social contact lists.

The Last Piece of the Trojan.Camec.A Puzzle

The third component of a Camec.A Trojan infection is TrojanDownloader:Win32/Camec.A, the initial part of any Camec.A infection that installs Trojan.Camec.A and TrojanSpy:Win32/Camec.A. TrojanDownloader:Win32/Camec.A will also assist TrojanSpy:Win32/Camec.A in gathering information that could be used to identify your computer, such the logged-in user name and the hard disk serial number. Remote attackers can exploit this information to single out your PC and control it, force it to become part of a DDoS botnet, install other malicious software or steal online banking data and other sensitive data.

SpywareRemove.com malicious software researchers have seen that Trojan.Camec.A and other Camec.A Trojan components always take the form of BHOs or Browser Helper Objects and will also register malevolent .dll files. Unless all else fails, don't try to remove Trojan.Camec.A files and related infection files without the assistance of a suitably advanced anti-malware product, since a botched removal of Trojan.Camec.A may harm Windows.

Trojan.Camec.A also has several aliases, depending on the brand of the anti-malware scanner that detects Trojan.Camec.A: Win-Trojan/Camec.203264, Bck/Turkojan.Y, Backdoor.Singu.by and TR/Camec.A.12 are several examples of its most well-used alternate names.