{"id":550809,"date":"2006-11-14T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550809-pornpass-manager-infects-computers-with-spyware.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T02:10:07","slug":"pornpass-manager-infects-computers-with-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550809-pornpass-manager-infects-computers-with-spyware.html","title":{"rendered":"PornPass Manager infects computers with spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">According to security analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, PornPass Manager promises to give unsuspecting victims free access to many adult Web sites and ezines from the shady side of World Wide Web. It seems a good enough offer for many to jump the gun; but it is just a facade. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In reality, the program drops masked Spyware programs like SpywareQuake and VirusBurst into the computer. PornPass Manager is very similar to the earlier pornographic password programs like X-Password Generator and MyPornMagPass. SpywareQuake and VirusBurst, the rogue security programs installed by PornPass Manager, are also identical to the ones installed by its predecessors. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">While these programs are run, it clashes with explorer.exe and rundll32.exe and crashes them both, making it impossible to work on the computer. While installing PPM it drops a Codec and some additional scripts in the system as well.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The program will continuously show fake Virus alert messages like: \u201cSystem is infected with Malware like backdoors that allow the remote attacker to perform various malicious actions. Click on the balloon to download malware removal software.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">PornPass Manager also creates two icons on the desktop named &#8216;Online Security Guide\u2019 and &#8216;Security Troubleshooting\u2019 which lead to links to certain Web sites and installs a browser hijacker called Smitfraud.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cPornPass Manager is a reflection of the increasing use of social engineering tactics in every channel of malware proliferation,\u201d observes Sunil Kripalani, vice-president, global sales and marketing, MicroWorld Technologies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the habit of visiting sleazy Web sites, apply caution! Whilst you surf in porn waters, you may be caught by a nasty spyware installer named &#8216;PornPass Manager&#8217;, which is very difficult to completely eliminate from your computer, once the machine is infected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}