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Keylog-Ardamax.dll

Type
Program
SubType
Keylogger
Discovery Date
12/01/2004
Length
Minimum DAT
4411 (12/01/2004)
Updated DAT
5439 (11/19/2008)
Minimum Engine
4.4.00
Description Added
12/01/2004
Description Modified
08/06/2007 4:24 PM (PT)
Risk Assessment
Corporate User
N/A
Home User
N/A

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Characteristics

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

Installation:

File: system32AKV.exe
Hash: 3BD5491988DB4DF8D4BF85DE0103F0FA

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program." It is a keylogger, that logs any key typed and also remembers the program within which the key is typed in, so that the log is easier to read.
The application can be put into a stealth mode to log keystrokes while in a visually inconspicuous state.
An additional interface (shown below) adds the ability to display and filter the keystrokes captured by the application.

Upon installation of this application the following changes occur in the user's system.

The following registry keys are added:

hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger\uninstallstring
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger\displayname="Ardamax Keylogger 2.5"

This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes that are typed by the user.
The application also configures itself to load at system startup

Symptoms

Method of Infection

Variants

Variants

    N/A

All Information

Overview -

Characteristics

Characteristics -

McAfee(R) AVERT™ recognizes that this program may have legitimate uses in contexts where an authorized administrator has knowingly installed this application. If you agreed to a license agreement for this, or another bundled application, you may have legal obligations with regard to removing this software, or using the host application without this software. Please contact the software vendor for further information.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/DATReadme.asp for a list of Program detections added to the DATs.

See http://vil.nai.com/vil/pups/configuration.htm for information about how to enable, disable, and exclude detection of legitimately installed programs.

Installation:

File: system32AKV.exe
Hash: 3BD5491988DB4DF8D4BF85DE0103F0FA

This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a "potentially unwanted program." It is a keylogger, that logs any key typed and also remembers the program within which the key is typed in, so that the log is easier to read.
The application can be put into a stealth mode to log keystrokes while in a visually inconspicuous state.
An additional interface (shown below) adds the ability to display and filter the keystrokes captured by the application.

Upon installation of this application the following changes occur in the user's system.

The following registry keys are added:

hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger\uninstallstring
hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion \uninstall\ardamax keylogger\displayname="Ardamax Keylogger 2.5"

This application is designed to capture all the keystrokes that are typed by the user.
The application also configures itself to load at system startup

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Removal -

Removal -

Instructions on Enabling/Disabling Detection and Removal of Potentially Unwanted Programs

Variants

Variants -

    N/A