Pest-Patrol Description

Pest-Patrol is a malicious rogue anti-spyware program created to trick users into purchasing the full Pest-Patrol version. Pest-Patrol attempts to mislead users into believing that it is actually CA PestPatrol, a legitimate anti-spyware program. Pest-Patrol may be downloaded and installed with the help of Trojans that may have infiltrated the user’s computer system through a browser security hole, or via other unconventional and unethical mechanisms. Once installed, Pest-Patrol will generate deceptive notifications of imaginary security and privacy risks to sell its product. Pest-Patrol may also generate system slowdown and instability.

Type: Spyware

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Pest-Patrol Technical Report

As new Pest-Patrol details are reported by our customers and findings from our Threat Research Center, we will update this section.

The following Pest-Patrol files with its MD5s were created in the system:

Pest-Patrol has typically the following processes in memory:

• Pest-Patrol.exe
• IEWarning.dll

Pest-Patrol created the following directories, files, paths:

• %ProgramFiles%\Pest-Patrol

Pest-Patrol creates the following registry entries:

• Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Pest-Patrol.exe
• Pest-Patrol
• 56FA7933-DC3E-403b-8D47-BB5E3F345A21

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