Title: Cytron

Type: Trojans

Remove Cytron. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(32 / 100)

The Cytron trojan displays unexpected commercial pop-up advertisements all the time the user surfs the Internet. The parasite is distributed by e-mail. It comes in a letter saying that the user has received an e-card. Once the user clicks on a particular link in the letter, Cytron gets silently installed to the system.

Cytron properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Cytron manual removal:

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Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\POTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\POTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Burnaby.TargetingSource

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
potd.dll, sec.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
potd.dll, sec.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2005-09-01 03:33:48

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When IE is started for the first time it attempts to connect to Cytron's servers to download a list of keywords to look for, and URLs of pop-ups to open.

According to various reports, it also sends itself to everybody listed in your address book, with an email claiming you have sent them a greeting card. Once they open it, they too are infected.

Cytron/potd installs potd.dll into Downloaded Program Files; with Cytron/sec the filename is sec.dll instead.

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