Remove Desktop Scout. Description and removal instructions

Title: Desktop Scout
Type: Keyloggers	Severity scale: (85 / 100)

Desktop Scout is a powerful commercial computer monitoring program that tracks user activity, logs all keystrokes, takes screenshots and records addresses of visited web sites. The application can be remotely controlled. It allows the person controlling it to run and terminate any program, download and manage files, view the remote screen, control the mouse and keyboard, restart or shutdown a computer. Desktop Scout is able to hide its running processes. The program must be manually installed. It secretly runs as a service on every Windows startup.

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Desktop Scout properties:
• Allows remote user connection
• Takes and sends out screenshots of user activity
• Logs keystrokes
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Desktop Scout removal:

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Desktop Scout manual removal:

Kill processes:
dtsview.exe, svcagnt.exe

HELP:
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Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\dtsagntsvc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GlobalPatrol\Desktop Scout [XVS]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Desktop Scout [XVS]_is1

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
dtsview.exe, svcagnt.exe, dtsview.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\Desktop Scout [XVS]
Misc:
[XVS] is a version number.

Desktop Scout opens 7250 TCP port.

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Information added: 28/06/04
Information updated: 08/10/05

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