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458014 2006-05-26 18:46:00 Found iopus in a Spybot scan...can this come in from the internet?

I got a funny feeling that someone opened this puter in Safe Mode, using Administrator's properties and stuck it in on me.

Any thoughts?
SurferJoe46 (51)
458015 2006-05-26 19:07:00 It looks like Iopus make internet and computer monitoring software, for networks or something & password recovery s/w. According to google.

Look in add/remove programs, see if there's an entry for Iopus Password recovery, or Iopus Starr Pro, which is the monitoring software.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
458016 2006-05-26 22:50:00 It's not in the programs area...but Spybot keeps on coughing it up for me to kill the process.......hmmmmmmm..

I am gonna go into Safe/ADMIN mode and scan again...
SurferJoe46 (51)
458017 2006-05-26 23:03:00 Hi Joe. I thought you needed its own password to uninstall this beast. Scouse (83)
458018 2006-05-26 23:18:00 OK...now I am concerned!

It's password?

Is this gonna show in Add/Delete?...I don't see it there...but now Spybot cannot find it...Hm..what's going on here?

Is this thing adaptive and can it hide where it wants when it feels threatened?

:badpc:
SurferJoe46 (51)
458019 2006-05-26 23:21:00 What did Spybot say exactly??

It was a minimal threat? A threat? A cookie? or what?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
458020 2006-05-26 23:32:00 Well....a little more research reveals this stuff about IOpus:

Name: IOpus Password Recovery XP
Category: Password Cracker
Date: 2004-02-24
Dangerous: Yes
IOpus Password Recovery XP belongs to Password Cracker spyware category.
iOpus Password Recovery XP allows you to decrypt & display password stored behind the asterisks. It is the first tool of its kind that works automatically on Web pages, Windows 9x/NT & Windows 2000/XP platforms. It's presense means that your computer is infected with malicious software and is insecure.

I hope this killed it once and for all:

1. Click Start > Run.
2. Type regedit

Then click OK.

3. Navigate to the key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Int ernet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform

4. In the right pane, delete the value:

"iOpus-I-M" = "[empty string]"

5. Delete the following registry subkeys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\iOpus Password Recovery XP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\iOpusPasswordRecovery
6. Exit the Registry Editor

BTW: this is one of the first in two years that got by my security stuff...but SpyBot found it anyway...
SurferJoe46 (51)
458021 2006-05-26 23:38:00 Hmm,

This (www.symantec.com)

I think, is what Symantec calls it, and how to fix it.

btw, a new detection update has just come out, if u havent updated Spybot yet.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
458022 2006-05-26 23:42:00 What did Spybot say exactly??

It was a minimal threat? A threat? A cookie? or what?

SpyBot reported it as a Beta .sbi whatever that is....in the front sheet of the products, iopus is listed as a keylogger too....
SurferJoe46 (51)
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