Cyber Snoop


· Overview ·
· Origins ·
· Distribution ·
· Operation ·
· Risks ·
· Detection and Removal ·
· Research ·



Overview

Vendor Notes:

from the web site: 'Cyber Snoop is an Internet monitoring software program that is designed to monitor a single PC. With Cyber Snoop's Quick Link™ feature, you can automatically link back to actual Web sites visited. It also restores the text of incoming and outgoing news, email, chat and Instant Messenger items, allowing you to maintain a history of all Internet activity for review.

Cyber Snoop features a keyword blocking option that helps protect personal privacy and safeguards against the dissemination of confidential information. You can also set different access privileges for each user and you can restrict the days and hours that users access the Internet.

Cyber Snoop is a software program that helps you create a safe Internet environment by monitoring usage and protecting privacy.

Keeps track of Internet activities so you can keep an eye out when users are online. Captures the full text of chats and messages. Offers unlimited security profiles for multiple Internet users. Provides time controls, allowing you to restrict the days and hours during which users can access the Internet.'

Category:

Key Logger: (Keystroke Logger). A program that runs in the background, recording all the keystrokes. Once keystrokes are logged, they are hidden in the machine for later retrieval, or shipped raw to the attacker. The attacker then peruses them carefully in the hopes of either finding passwords, or possibly other useful information that could be used to compromise the system or be used in a social engineering attack. For example, a key logger will reveal the contents of all e-mail composed by the user. Keylog programs are commonly included in rootkits and RATs (remote administration trojans).

Surveillance: Any software designed to use a webcam, microphone, screen capture, or other approaches to monitor and capture information. Some such software will transmit this captured information to a remote source. See also Key Logger.

Variants:

  • Cyber Snoop 4.0
  • Similar Pests:

    Key Logger · Surveillance

    Origins

    Group:

    Pearl Software

    By This Group:

    Cyber Snoop 4.0 ·

    Mailing Address:

    Pearl Software 64 East Uwchlan Ave. Suite 230 Exton, PA 19341

    Phone:

    (800) PEARL96

    EMail:

    webmaster@pearlsw.com

    URL:

    http://www.pearlsw.com

    Date of Origin:

    March, 2004

    Distribution

    Prevalence:

  • Cyber Snoop 4.0: < 0.00005%
  • More Info

    Clot Factor:

  • Cyber Snoop 4.0: < 1
  • The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.

    Countries Affected:

    In the past three months, we have received reports of Cyber Snoop in United States.

    Operation

    Platform:

    Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP and NT 4.0

    Storage Required:

  • Cyber Snoop 4.0: at least 3141 KB
  • ScreenShot:


    Cyber Snoop 4.0



    Cyber Snoop 4.0


    Risks

    Privacy Policy:

    http://www.pearlsw.com/about/privacy.html

    Detection Issues:

    Difficult to detect by design. May hide from process list. May install with variable names in variable locations.

    Detection and Removal

    Automatic Removal:

    PestPatrol detects this.

    PestPatrol removes this.



    Manual Removal:

    Follow these steps to remove Cyber Snoop from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.
    Stop Running Processes:

    Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

    Remove Files:

    Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

    Research

    File Analyses:

    More Info:

  • AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, Yahoo!
  • Research By:

  • PestPatrol's Pest Research Center
  • Last Revised:

    April 15, 2005