Prevx Research Division
ANTISPYWARE.SYS
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Associated Malware Groups
The filename is associated with the malware group:
- Fraudulent Security Program
File Behavior
ANTISPYWARE.SYS has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
ANTISPYWARE.SYS has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Created as a new Background Service on the machine
- Executed as a Process
- Executed from Temporary Folders
Country Of Origin
The filename ANTISPYWARE.SYS was first seen on Feb 15 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- South Africa on Feb 15 2008
- The United States on Feb 15 2008
- Italy on Mar 4 2008
- Europe on Apr 5 2008
File Name Aliases
ANTISPYWARE.SYS can also use the following file names:
- ANTISPYWARE.X86.SYS
- ANTISPYWARE.X86.EXE
- ANTISPYWARE.SY
- 55945296.SYS
- 79562173.SYS
- 92687138.SVD
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 19,712 bytes
- 22,528 bytes
File Type
The filename ANTISPYWARE.SYS refers to many versions of an object.
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