Spammer.Sality.A
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| Threat Level: | 80 % (High) |
| Infected Computers: | 7 |
| First Seen: | March 15, 2011 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Spammer.Sality.A is a dangerous malware item which searches targeted users' Outlook address books and Internet Explorer cached files for email addresses to send unsolicited and spammed email messages. The contents of the spammed emails depend on the information Spammer.Sality.A gets from a distant server. This type of email hijack can be dastardly for the users included as his recipients will most probably be unaware of the hijacked email and will then open any attachments that expose their own computers to threat. Spammer.Sality.A infiltrates into the computer system surreptitiously by installing itself with other malware components. Spammer.Sality.A may come in the computer system using a randomly created name. Select effective anti-virus software to eliminate Spammer.Sality.A.
Table of Contents
Aliases
15 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| Panda | Trj/Genetic.gen |
| AVG | SpamTool.JSO |
| Fortinet | W32/Spamtool.AGENT.NET!tr |
| DrWeb | Trojan.Mssmsgs.4048 |
| Kaspersky | HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic |
| eSafe | Win32.Trojan |
| McAfee | Artemis!E2F117BB1CF8 |
| AVG | BackDoor.Generic15.BPEE |
| Fortinet | W32/MailBot.C |
| AntiVir | TR/Rogue.kdv.623417 |
| DrWeb | Trojan.Mssmsgs.3820 |
| Comodo | TrojWare.Win32.SpamTool.Agent.AV |
| Sophos | Mal/MailBot-C |
| Kaspersky | Backdoor.Win32.Spammy.beh |
| Avast | Win32:Malware-gen |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Spammer.Sality.A
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 6to4ex.dll | 93b905d6ea57450956723eed32ed323e | 2 |
| 2. | winloanl.exe | 78883563954f5b6b1d8858dae7894dc7 | 2 |
| 3. | w926f4.exe | 6139a75cfd98ce4db494b6b10daae1d3 | 1 |
| 4. | explorer.exe:userini.exe | b2ef1ca7588acff59b833223b7ba9c23 | 1 |
| 5. | wintuuskj.exe | df6186f19acc844fc22da2a35908a256 | 1 |
