Trojan.Spachanel

Posted: January 29, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	9/10
Infected PCs:	7

First Seen:	January 29, 2013
Last Seen:	March 13, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Trojan.Spachanel is a Trojan and browser hijacker that uses sophisticated methods to update itself and acquire new content to display in your browser – whether you want to see its content or not. Current Trojan.Spachanel attacks appear to be limited to the promotion of pay-per-click style advertisements, although Trojan.Spachanel's functions can, in theory, allow Trojan.Spachanel to display other types of content, including redirects to malicious sites, drive-by-downloads and phishing attacks. For deleting Trojan.Spachanel, Spywareremove.com malware experts recommend making use of either an expert in PC security or an anti-malware program that's designed to deal with such high-level dangers to your computer's safety – ideally, as soon as you have any reason to suspect that Trojan.Spachanel is on your computer.

Trojan.Spachanel: the Artful Firewall Dodger

Trojan.Spachanel uses Java-injection techniques to alter web pages as your browser loads them. While this can be used to display many types of content, current attacks by Trojan.Spachanel Trojans restrict themselves to displaying advertisements. Naturally, as a constantly-running program that can't be disabled, Trojan.Spachanel also will use your system's resources and may harm the performance of your PC, particularly with respect to your web-browsing activities. Advertisements by Trojan.Spachanel also may be harmful to your computer and Spywareremove.com malware researchers generally advise as total an avoidance of them as you can manage.

From a coding standpoint, Trojan.Spachanel's most interesting functions are those that Trojan.Spachanel uses to acquire new content from remote servers that can then be displayed in your browser. Trojan.Spachanel exploits SPF, an e-mail security feature, to contact trustworthy servers prior to making contact with malicious server names that are generated by a preset algorithm. Criminals then acquire and configure these servers as they're set to be used by Trojan.Spachanel. In practical terms, Spywareremove.com malware analysts note that this allows Trojan.Spachanel to circumvent PC security features related to firewalls and DNS settings.

In addition to its attacks, Trojan.Spachanel also may attempt to gather personal information from your machine (bank account passwords, e-mail addresses, etc.). Other than potential alerts from your security applications, these attacks will not show any visible symptoms.

Switching Your Browser Away from Trojan.Spachanel's Advertising Network

Trojan.Spachanel can inject its advertising content into multiple browsers and includes components that are installed separately from your web browsers. Similarly, your browser's security features are unable to block Trojan.Spachanel's content-injecting attacks, and you should feel free to resort to the use of strong anti-malware programs for removing Trojan.Spachanel from your PC.

Trojan.Spachanel is a Windows-specific Trojan and does not function on Mac or Unix-based operating systems. However, most versions of Windows are vulnerable to Trojan.Spachanel, including Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows Server 2008. As a high note, Spywareremove.com malware experts are happy to mention that Trojan.Spachanel's distribution currently is very limited and that proper web-browsing security procedures should prevent Trojan.Spachanel's numbers from growing significantly.

Trojan.Spachanel

Threat Metric

Trojan.Spachanel: the Artful Firewall Dodger

Switching Your Browser Away from Trojan.Spachanel's Advertising Network

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