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09 October 2007

PestTrap

Ran into PestTrap, one of the notorious anti-spyware tools. PestTrap installed itself on the system through a security hole along with some other components marked in red:

FreeFixer v0.22 log
http://www.freefixer.com/
Operating system: Windows NT 5.1
Log dated 2007-10-08 18:08

System policies
HKCU\..\policies\system, Wallpaper =  (Remove)

Registry Startups
HKCU\..\Run, MSMSGS = "C:\Program\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
HKCU\..\Run, Windows installer = C:\winstall.exe (Remove)
HKCU\..\Run, PestTrap = C:\Program Files\PestTrap\PestTrap.exe (Remove)

Processes (15 whitelisted)
C:\Program\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program\FreeFixer\freefixer.exe
C:\DOCUME~1\Roger\LOKALA~1\Tempwn10050.exe (Remove)
C:\Program Files\PestTrap\PestTrap.exe (Remove)