Remove Looksky.d. Description and removal instructions

 
Title: Looksky.d

Type: Worms
Severity scale:Looksky.d severity is 77  (77 / 100)
 
Looksky.d is a dangerous Internet worm, which spreads by e-mail. It arrives in infected executable files attached to bogus e-mail messages.

Once executed, Looksky.d silently installs itself to the system and runs a spreading routine. The worm sends e-mail messages with attached infected files to all the contacts in Windows Address Book and The Bat! mail client. Letters have the following subject: "Account # 394875948JNO Wed, 28" and the following body:
"Hello,
We sent you an email a while ago, because you now qualify for a much lower rate based on the biggest rate drop in years.
You can now get $756,000 for as little as $909 a month! Bad credit? Doesn't matter, ^low rates are fixed no matter what!
Follow this link to process your application and a 24 hour approval:
[web link]
Best Regards,
Bernadine Guy"

The parasite's payload is comprised of several harmful functions. Looksky.d opens a back door that gives the attacker unauthorized remote access to a compromised computer. The worm logs all user keystrokes, collects system information and steals local login names and passwords. Then it sends gathered data to a predetermined e-mail address or transfers it to a predefined web server. Looksky.d is able to automatically update itself via the Internet and bypass the Windows Firewall.

The worm secretly runs on every Windows startup.


Looksky.d properties:
• Allows remote user connection
• Sends out logs by FTP or email
• Logs keystrokes
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Looksky.d manual removal:

Kill processes:
main_23_c.exe, sachostb.exe, sachostc.exe, sachostp.exe, sachosts.exe, sachostw.exe, sachostx.exe, tmx[X].exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\hotsrv=%Windir%\sachostx.exe
Delete files:
main_23_c.exe, sachostb.exe, sachostc.exe, sachostp.exe, sachosts.exe, sachostw.exe, sachostx.exe, tmx[X].exe, msvcrl.dll, attrib.ini
Misc:
[X] is a set of random characters.

The main_23_c.exe file arrives attached to Looksky.d e-mail messages.

Exact file location:
sachostx.exe - C:\Windows or C:\Winnt
tmx[X].exe - C:\Windows\Temp or C:\Winnt\Temp
sachostb.exe, sachostc.exe, sachostp.exe, sachostw.exe, sachostx.exe, msvcrl.dll, attrib.ini - C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32

Other programs to remove Looksky.d:

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Information added: 01/12/05
Information updated: 01/12/05

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