ZeroAccess .It is one malware type Trojan that infects computers with Windows operating system, passing these to be part of a network of bots , or botnet . These botnet networks, which are controlled remotely by a central node, can be used for multiple malicious targets.
Summary
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- 1 Form of Action
- 2 Other Aliases
- 3 Systems Affected
- 4 Forms of Infection
- 1 Decontamination
- 5 Sources
Form of Performance
The infected computers, in addition to being controlled by a central unit , from where any type of malicious activity can be ordered, have as main objective:
- Miningof Bitcoin : the network of infected computers to perform complex operations required to generate this used currency .
- Onlinead campaign fraud : infected computers visit certain sites or advertisements, where advertisers pay an amount of money for visits.
Other Aliases
- max ++
- Sirefef
Systems Affected
Mainly Windows systems:
- Windows Xp
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
Forms of Infection
- Compromised or malicious sites, in which, through advertisements or spamcampaigns, an attempt is made to direct users to visit compromised pages prepared to take advantage of some vulnerability in the system to infect it.
- Social engineering, this type of technique takes advantage of the user’s trust to make it run a malicious program that will infect the computer with ZeroAccess
Decontamination
It can be decontaminated with tools associated with antivirus such as:
- Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool
- Sophos Virus Removal Tool
- Panda Cloud Cleaner
- Norton Power Eraser
