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Virus.BAT.Gray.705

July 9th, 2009 2 Comments

Virus.BAT.Gray.705 is part of Windows Security Suite pop-up alert message that will be displayed on infected computer. Virus.BAT.Gray.705 does not really exists and was falsely detected to alarm computer owners and impose that they need to buy the said program. Since the virus is not present on the system there is no need for its removal. Instead, focus youself in removing the rogue application that issued this fake alert.

Type	Popup
Sub-Type	FakeAV
Aliases
OS Affected	Windows
Detected By	MalwareBytes

What Virus.BAT.Gray.705 Does?

A threat is displayed in the following format:

Warning! Your computer is infected
Warning! Spyware found!
Detected: Spyware
File Name: exec.sys
Name: Virus.BAT.Gray.705
This is a dangerous nonmemory resident BAT infector. It writes itself to the end of C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file

Virus-BATGary-705

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “Windows Security Suite”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform “698909210803″
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WI345d.DocHostUIHandler
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3F2BBC05-40DF-11D2-9455-00104BC936FF}

The threat will drop the following malicious files:

%UserProfile%\Recent\kernel32.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\runddl.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\SM.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\PE.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\grid.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\tempdoc.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\energy.dll
%UserProfile%\Recent\CLSV.exe
%UserProfile%\Recent\std.exe
%UserProfile%\Recent\snl2w.exe
%UserProfile%\Recent\dudl.sys
%UserProfile%\Recent\grid.sys
%UserProfile%\Recent\ANTIGEN.drv
%UserProfile%\Recent\DBOLE.drv
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Windows Security Suite\cookies.sqlite
%UserProfile%\Recent\PE.tmp
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Security Suite.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Windows Security Suite.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Windows Security Suite.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Security Suite.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Windows Security Suite
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\WI345d.exe
c:\ADWARE_LOG
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\WINSSSys
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WINSSSys
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\mozcrt19.dll
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\sqlite3.dll
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Windows Security Suite\Instructions.ini
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\WINSSSys\vd952342.bd
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WINSSSys\winss.cfg
c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\search.xml
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\26.mof
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\WINSS.ico
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\345d567\working.log

How to Remove Virus.BAT.Gray.705 Manually

1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
- After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
- From the selections, Select SafeMode

2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
- Click Start > Run
- Type in the field, regedit
- Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary

3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
- Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
- If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the file.
- If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.

How to Easily Remove Virus.BAT.Gray.705

1. See Windows Security Suite

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