Remove Chat Watch. Description and removal instructions

Title: Chat Watch
Type: Spyware	Severity scale: (58 / 100)

Chat Watch is a commercial spyware application designed especially to record private online chat conversations made using ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and few other programs. The application can send the log to a configurable e-mail address. Chat Watch is able to hide its running processes by disabling standard system tools. It may also completely deny access to all installed messengers. The threat must be manually installed. It runs on every Windows startup.

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Chat Watch properties:
• Sends out logs by FTP or email
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Chat Watch removal:

remover for Chat Watch

Chat Watch manual removal:

Kill processes:
cw.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\cwatch
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1AB22F59-FB66-4A06-BCA9-EA5A6D5785E0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42F1591E-830C-11D2-BBDE-0055003B26DE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{42F1591E-830C-11D2-BBDE-0055003B26DE}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{9CCD14D6-ABE0-44BF-8F04-29E59D2CDA5D}

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
cw.exe, smtp.ocx

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\CW[XVS]
Misc:
[XVS] is the version number.

Pressing CTRL+F6 brings the Chat Watch main window. The key combination may vary.

Other programs to remove Chat Watch:

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• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 19/03/04
Information updated: 14/09/05

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