Lancelot
2010-11-04, 16:56
Scanned and found a Win32.Bifrost trojan/registry key.
The one and only item found:
Win32.Bifrost
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-[maany digits here]\Software\Cerberus
Bifrost is a trojan and according to this Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifrost_(trojan_horse)), it is supposed to leave a file at C:\Program Files\Bifrost.
But C:\Program Files\Bifrost does not exist on my computer. I searched for it after Spybot found it, but before Spybot fixed the problem. I searched both for Win32.Bifrost and the registry key on my computer but all searches came up empty. (I have all types of files and folders visible, it's my standard setting as I don't like anything invisible.)
I wanted to find something so I could determine when I got the infection. Is a registry key a file that has properties like creation/edit date? It would have been useful to know when it was created.
Wikipedia says this trojan has a keylogger. I have maybe a hundred website accounts, and as I don't know how long this registry key spy thing was on my system I don't know if it has stolen dozens of passwords.... I wonder if I have to change password everywhere? :blink:
Maybe I did not have the trojan fully installed so maybe I never was at risk, but I would like to know.
I'm using NIS 2007 as my main security. It has not reported any malware infection ever, but the weekly scan is tomorrow.
If you understand something about this, please fill me in. Thank you.
The one and only item found:
Win32.Bifrost
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-[maany digits here]\Software\Cerberus
Bifrost is a trojan and according to this Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifrost_(trojan_horse)), it is supposed to leave a file at C:\Program Files\Bifrost.
But C:\Program Files\Bifrost does not exist on my computer. I searched for it after Spybot found it, but before Spybot fixed the problem. I searched both for Win32.Bifrost and the registry key on my computer but all searches came up empty. (I have all types of files and folders visible, it's my standard setting as I don't like anything invisible.)
I wanted to find something so I could determine when I got the infection. Is a registry key a file that has properties like creation/edit date? It would have been useful to know when it was created.
Wikipedia says this trojan has a keylogger. I have maybe a hundred website accounts, and as I don't know how long this registry key spy thing was on my system I don't know if it has stolen dozens of passwords.... I wonder if I have to change password everywhere? :blink:
Maybe I did not have the trojan fully installed so maybe I never was at risk, but I would like to know.
I'm using NIS 2007 as my main security. It has not reported any malware infection ever, but the weekly scan is tomorrow.
If you understand something about this, please fill me in. Thank you.