PrizeSurfer Trojan

PrizeSurfer malware description and removal detail
Categories:Trojan,Adware
Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Trojan.Win32.RCSync;
[Panda]Adware/RCSync
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files\passkey.dll
[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files\passkey.dll

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

Detecting PrizeSurfer:

Files:
[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files\passkey.dll
[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files\passkey.dll

Folders:
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\rcprograms
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\rcprograms1
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\rcprograms2

Registry Keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{7b91df1f-96e8-42ba-ab39-e1db9ce9f371}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\interface\{6d846abd-9ece-44ad-bb1b-e1b0b20e352f}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\passkey.validate
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\passkey.validate.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{be055af3-6567-4678-a901-d4b7d92e55fe}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\code store database\distribution units\{7b91df1f-96e8-42ba-ab39-e1db9ce9f371}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\moduleusage\[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files\passkey.dll

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shareddlls\[%WINDOWS%]\downloaded program files

Removing PrizeSurfer:

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

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 PrizeSurfer manually.

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

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