Standard Registry locations affected by Virus's ,Spyware and Adware

21 Mar 2006 12:37 PM

vighnesh

Hai All

Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that are
affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

21 Mar 2006 1:12 PM

garyusenet

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

this is the most obivous one.

21 Mar 2006 2:21 PM

Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )

HI,

I don't see ther relation with either csharp or VB , why r u posting this
here?

It does depend of the malware in question, download a very good utility to
monitoring the registry from sysinternals.com

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

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"vighnesh" <vighn***@nannacomputers.com> wrote in message
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> Hai All
>
> Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that
> are affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Vighneswar
>

21 Mar 2006 7:31 PM

Ken Halter

"vighnesh" <vighn***@nannacomputers.com> wrote in message
news:O4A$CROTGHA.4960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hai All
>
> Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that
> are affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Vighneswar

Adding to the pile here.... if there were a published "Standard" for virus
writers, I assume everyone would simply make sure that part of the registry
was emptied before logging off each night.... then, we wouldn't need AV
software.

--
Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
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