CWS.MUpdate Trojan

CWS.MUpdate malware description and removal detail
Categories:Trojan,Hijacker
Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Trojan.Win32.StartPage.bb,Trojan.Win32.WebSearch.a;
[Panda]Trj/StartPage.BD;
[Computer Associates]Win32.Startpage.U,Win32/SearchPage.U!Trojan
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%SYSTEM%]\mupdate.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\system\mupdate.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\mupdate.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\system\mupdate.exe

In order to ensure that the CWS.MUpdate is launched automatically each time the system is booted, the CWS.MUpdate adds a link to its executable file in the system registry:
HKLM\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
[%SYSTEM%]\mupdate.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\system\mupdate.exe

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

Detecting CWS.MUpdate:

Files:
[%SYSTEM%]\mupdate.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\system\mupdate.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\mupdate.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\system\mupdate.exe

Removing CWS.MUpdate:

An up-to-date copy of ExterminateIt should detect and prevent infection from CWS.MUpdate.

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 CWS.MUpdate manually.

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

1. Use Task Manager to terminate the CWS.MUpdate process.
2. Delete the original CWS.MUpdate 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.

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