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Friday
2008-11-28, 18:31
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Crazywinnings.Inc" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:
trojan

Description:
no game, executing the file will result in internet access to crazywinnings.com , which appears to be a search website with a lot of advertising and misleading popunders.
very suspicous is the link: "why am I seeing this web site?" , it is linked to an email adress and is most likely to collect email adresses for spamming.


Supposed Functionality:
according to filenaming like pacman.exe it appears to be a game .
Privacy Statement:
no statement
Removal Instructions:

Desktop:

Please remove the following files from your desktop.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

Shortcuts named "Crazywinningsgame.lnk" and pointing to "Crazywinningsgame.exe".

Start Menu:

Please remove the following items from your start menu.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

Items named "Crazywinningsgame.lnk" and pointing to "Crazywinningsgame.exe".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

A file with an unknown location named "crazywinningsgame.exe".
Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Crazywinnings.Inc uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.