File Investigation Report
AVGW.EXE
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File Behavior
AVGW.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Automatically changes your firewall settings to allow itself or other programs to communicate over the internet
- Adds products to the system registry
- Modifies Windows Security Policies to restrict/expand User Privileges on the machine
- The process hooks code into all running processes which could allow it to take control of the system or record keyboard input, mouse activity and screen contents
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Registers a Dynamic Link Library File
- Disables safe mode on your PC
- The Process is polymorphic and can change its structure
AVGW.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Added as a Registry auto start to load Program on Boot up
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Executed as a Process
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Registered as a Dynamic Link Library File
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
Country Of Origin
The filename AVGW.EXE was first seen on Sep 15 2007 in the following geographical regions of the Prevx community:
- ROMANIA on Sep 15 2007
- NETHERLANDS on Oct 1 2007
- GERMANY on Oct 1 2007
- The UNITED STATES on Nov 26 2007
- The UNITED KINGDOM on May 9 2008
- SPAIN on Jun 19 2008
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 276,480 bytes
- 219,136 bytes
- 182,272 bytes
- 180,224 bytes
- 210,432 bytes
- 152,576 bytes
File Type
The filename AVGW.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
File Activity
One or more files with the name AVGW.EXE creates, deletes, copies or moves the following files and folders:
- Creates c:\windows\system32\wmdrtc32.dl_
- Creates l:\KUKU400alph
- Creates m:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates n:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates o:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates p:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates q:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates r:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates s:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates t:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates u:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates v:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates w:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates x:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates y:\KUKU400alpha
- Creates z:\KUKU400alpha
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