File Behavior
WINTOOLSPRO.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Adds a Registry Key (RUN) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Changes the Internet Explorer Search Page
- Adds a Registry Key (RUNONCE) to auto start Programs on system start up
- Executes a Process
- Modifies Windows Security Policies to restrict/expand User Privileges on the machine
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- This process creates other processes on disk
- Violates Prevx File Security Settings
- Reads your outlook address book
- Changes the Internet Explorer Home Page Settings
- Terminates Processes
- Uses rootkit techniques to conceal its presence, interrogation or removal
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
- Adds products to the system registry
- Creates system tray popups, messages, errors and security warnings
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
WINTOOLSPRO.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Created as a process on disk
- Executed as a Process
- Deleted as a process from disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename WINTOOLSPRO.EXE was first seen on Mar 13 2008 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Denmark on Mar 13 2008
- Brazil on Mar 13 2008
- Europe on Apr 16 2008
- Indonesia on Apr 16 2008
- Spain on Aug 16 2008
- India on Aug 16 2008
- Ukraine on Sep 17 2008
- Russian Federation on Jan 25 2011
- Albania on Jan 7 2012
File Name Aliases
WINTOOLSPRO.EXE can also use the following file names:
- WINTOOLSPRO[1].EXE
- WINTOO~1.EXE
- WINTOOLSPRO93.EXE
- SETUP.EXE
- WINTOOLSPRO(2).EXE
- WINTOOLSPRO930.EXE
- 84062248
- DD1.EXE
- 96460207.EXE
- 97329297.SVD
- 35101632.EXE
- 73331448.EXE
- 21727975.DAT
- 52497886.DAT
- 91381583.EXE
- 44953773.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 1,831,424 bytes
- 1,695,744 bytes
- 1,917,952 bytes
- 227,796 bytes
- 534,016 bytes
- 1,262,659 bytes
- 2,021,376 bytes
File Type
The filename WINTOOLSPRO.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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