Title: Wintoo

Type: Worms

Remove Wintoo. Removal instructions

Also known as: Sexer

Severity scale:

(41 / 100)

Wintoo, also known as Sexer, is an Internet worm that propagates by e-mail in messages with infected executable attachments. The message's body and subject are written in Russian. Once executed, the parasite installs itself to the system, changes the desktop background image and runs a spreading routine. Wintoo sends malicious letters to all the addresses it finds in the Windows Address Book. The threat doesn't carry any destructive payload. Wintoo runs on every Windows startup.

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

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Wintoo manual removal:

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Kill processes:
kavutil.exe, sex.exe, win2drv.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\KAVutil
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Win2Drv

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
kavutil.exe, sex.exe, win2drv.exe, kavutil.bmp, sex.bmp

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
kavutil.exe and win2drv.exe files come attached to Wintoo e-mail messages.

Exact file location:
sex.exe, sex.bmp - C:
kavutil.exe, kavutil.bmp - C:\Program Files\Common Files\System

Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2005-09-30 10:26:22

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