Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Key.Captor Spyware

Key.Captor malware description and removal detail
Categories:Spyware
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%WINDOWS%]\spysplash.dat
[%WINDOWS%]\spysplash.dat

Platforms / OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Detecting Key.Captor:

Files:
[%WINDOWS%]\spysplash.dat
[%WINDOWS%]\spysplash.dat

Folders:
[%PROGRAMS%]\Keycaptor
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\KeyCaptor

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall

Removing Key.Captor:

An up-to-date copy of ExterminateIt should detect and prevent infection from Key.Captor.

If you do not have ExterminateIt and you are worried that you may have infected computer, you could run trial version of ExterminateIt, or remove Key.Captor manually.

To completely manually remove Key.Captor malware from your computer, you need to delete the Windows registry keys and registry values, the files and folders associated with Key.Captor.

  1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Key.Captor process.
  2. Delete the original Key.Captor file and folders.
  3. Delete the system registry key parameters
  4. Update your antivirus databases or buy antivirus software and perform a full scan of the computer.

We recommends that all Internet users back up any important information on their computers, enable maximum protection from network attacks and malicious code on their computers, refrain from executing suspicious programs received from untrustworthy sources.


ExterminateIt effectively and automatically removes Key.Captor from you computer and is a good solution for those who are seeking easy and effective protection for their computer from Trojan Horses, Rootkits, Backdoors, spyware, botnets, keystroke loggers, dialers and other malicious software(malware).

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