Remove Rivarts. Description and removal instructions

Title: Rivarts
Type: Trojans	Severity scale: (70 / 100)

Rivarts is a dangerous trojan designed to steal bank account details and user sensitive information. Once executed, the parasite secretly installs itself to the system and injects a malicious code into all running processes. This code is a rootkit that hides all Rivarts files, tasks and registry keys. Then the trojan starts recording confidential data that the user enters into various web forms using Internet Explorer. It also redirects Internet traffic, hijacks the web browser, collects system information and attempts to steal web certificates used in encrypted SSL connections. Rivarts transfers gathered data to predefined web servers. It is able to lower Internet security settings and automatically update itself via the Internet. Furthermore, the trojan may open a back door providing the attacker with remote unauthorized access to the compromised computer. Rivarts runs on every Windows startup.

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Rivarts properties:
• Allows remote user connection
• Logs keystrokes
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Rivarts removal:

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Rivarts manual removal:

Kill processes:
wscntfy.exe, zsys.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\zsys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mchinjdrv

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
wscntfy.exe, zsys.exe, zsys1.dll, zsys2.dll, mc[X].tmp, zsys2.db

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
[X] is a randomly chosen name or a combination of random characters.

The zsys2.db file contains stolen data.

Exact file location:
wscntfy.exe - C:\Windows or C:\Winnt
mc[X].tmp - C:\Windows\Temp or C:\Winnt\Temp
zsys.exe, zsys1.dll, zsys2.dll, zsys2.db - C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32

Other programs to remove Rivarts:

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Information added: 04/03/06
Information updated: 04/03/06

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