Remove Fakepatch. Description and removal instructions

Title: Fakepatch
Type: Worms	Severity scale: (42 / 100)

Fakepatch is a worm that propagates by e-mail through messages with infected attachments. Once the user executes such an attachment, the parasite secretly installs itself to the system and runs a spreading routine. Fakepatch gathers user contacts from the Yahoo! Messenger program and uses them to send out malicious e-mails, which purportedly offer an important patch for Yahoo! Messenger. The worm does not carry any destructive payload. Fakepatch runs on every Windows startup.

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Fakepatch properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Fakepatch removal:

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Fakepatch manual removal:

Kill processes:
email.exe, sectoriate.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Yahoo Patcher!

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
email.exe, sectoriate.exe

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
The email.exe file arrives attached to Fakepatch e-mail messages.

The sectoriate.exe executable can be found in the root of the main hard disk (C:).

Other programs to remove Fakepatch:

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Information added: 01/05/06
Information updated: 01/05/06

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