Remove Hocgaly. Description and removal instructions

Title: Hocgaly
Type: Worms	Severity scale: (50 / 100)

Hocgaly is an Internet worm that spreads by e-mail through messages with infected attachments. Once executed, the parasite installs itself to the system and runs a spreading routine. Hocgaly sends bogus e-mail messages to addresses it gathers from local web and programming files. Then it runs a payload. The worm disables the Sygate Firewall and attempts to perform Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against some Israeli web sites. Hocgaly runs on every Windows startup.

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Related files: winmem.exe, winflag.vxd, winmail.vxd, winpos.vdx, winsrc.vxd

Hocgaly properties:
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Hocgaly removal:

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Hocgaly manual removal:

Kill processes:
winmem.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\winmem
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Zone Labs Client
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\winmem

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
winmem.exe, winflag.vxd, winmail.vxd, winpos.vdx, winsrc.vxd

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
Hocgaly files can be found in the default system directory, which is one of the following: C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Winnt\System32.

Other programs to remove Hocgaly:

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Information added: 03/08/06
Information updated: 03/08/06

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