Spyware Information: Advanced Instant Messengers Password Recovery
This application is a password guesser. It is designed to try to break through a password system by guessing millions of passwords until it gets the correct one. Hackers will often use such tools to break into computers on a network; they can set up the password guesser to try to log in to the network, and let it run until it does.
Although you may have never heard of Advanced Instant Messengers Password Recovery and don't know how it got onto your computer, your computer may have beem compromised and a hacker may have installed the password guesser on it. This allows the hacker to run the guesser without being caught -- if a network administrator sees that someone is trying to guess a password and traces the communication, the trace will end at your computer.
- Size: 988,160 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 3,521 this month: 0
- Author: Elcomsoft
- Appeared: November, 2002
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- Method of infection: Downloadable directly from Elcomsoft at (http://www.elcomsoft.com) or from shareware or trialwire sites. For more information on the product, see Elcomsoft's product page.
- Advertising: None.
- Security issues: This program can be used, according to Elcomsoft's website, to break your passwords for: ICQ and ICQLite, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Excite Messenger, MSN Messenger, Odigo, Trillian, AT&T IM Anywhere, T-Online Messenger, Match Messenger, Praize IM, ScreenFIRE, ACD Express Comunicator, Imici Messenger, Prodigy IM, PowWow Messenger, Jabber IM, Kellster IM, PalTalk, Indiatimes messenger, Miranda, Tiscali, Ya.com Messenger, Rediff Bol, Sify Buzz, Devil, Tencent QQ, QQ (Africa Version), &RQ, Ipswitch Instant Messenger, Eighth Wonder Catax, Simple Instant Messenger, Vista IM, GAIM, Global-IM and Psi Jabber client.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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