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Some virus scanners (and browsers, e.g. Google Chrome 20.0.1132.47) detect Cain and Abel as malware. Avast! detects it as "Win32:Cain-B [Tool]" and classifies it as "Other potentially dangerous program", [4] while Microsoft Security Essentials detects it as "Win32/Cain!4_9_14" and classifies it as "Tool: This program has potentially unwanted behavior."
As of August 2012, InstallCore was managing 100 million installations every month, offering services for paid, unpaid, and free software by using the SDK version. [5] InstallCore was a product of ironSource, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, California , and Beijing, China.
The tool is also available as a standalone download. [1] Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013.
If the host file (the file that is infected with the virus) imports the file User32.dll, then on 17 March, June, September, or December, a message is displayed. Depending on the version of the virus, the case of each letter in the text is altered randomly. On 14 May (the anniversary of Israeli independence day), a message saying "Free Palestine!"
Sality is a family of polymorphic file infectors, which target Windows executable files with the extensions .EXE or .SCR. [1] Sality utilizes polymorphic and entry-point obscuring (EPO) techniques to infect files using the following methods: not changing the entry point address of the host, and replacing the original host code at the entry point of the executable with a variable stub to ...
OpenCandy was an adware module and a potentially unwanted program classified as malware by many anti-virus vendors. [1] [2] [3] [4] They flagged OpenCandy due to its ...
Dridex, also known as Bugat and Cridex, is a form of malware that specializes in stealing bank credentials via a system that utilizes macros from Microsoft Word. [5]The targets of this malware are Windows users who open an email attachment in Word or Excel, causing macros to activate and download Dridex, infecting the computer and opening the victim to banking theft.
A Trojan:Win32/Agent is the definition (from Microsoft or Apple) of a Trojan downloader, Trojan dropper, or Trojan spy. Its first known detection was January 2018, according to Microsoft Malware Protection Center. Trojans may allow an attacker to access users' personal information such as banking information, passwords, or personal identity.