Title: SurferBar

Type: Trojans

Remove SurferBar. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(69 / 100)

Surferbar is an Internet Explorer toolbar that might be associated with a new version of a trojan horse program called AFlooder. This Trojan program usually arrives as an embedded malicious script in a specially crafted HTML-based email or Web site. It sets your homepage to their website, and also displays pop-ups.

SurferBar properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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SurferBar manual removal:

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Kill processes:
winsrv32.exe, wins32.exe

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Delete registry values:
Browse to the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \ Once
Delete the entry 'c:\program files\winsrv32.exe' or 'c:\program files\wins32.exe'

HELP:
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Delete files:
win32.dll, winsrv32.exe, drg.exe, wins32.exe, sfbar.exe

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Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2004-04-20 14:30:14

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- The old homepage at surferbar.com seems to have died.
- The new AFlooder variant is an irc trojan/spybot that uses worm techniques to spread to machines via web pages. It is apparently coded to have qualities of remote access trojans, IRC bots, keyloggers, and even seems to have the capability to carry out DDoS attacks if the owner orders it to. It uses an exploit to write and execute its' injector program to machines without the user's acceptance or knowledge, then it uses NTFS's alternate file streams to hide itself where there's very little chance of finding it -- in the actual windows folder system32.

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2004 03 01

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