ErrorDoctor is a rogue anti-spyware program that is designed to scare you into purchasing ErrorDoctor's full version by showing misleading warning messages on your Taskbar. ErrorDoctor scans your computer and uses false positives in order to frighten you into buying the program. Although ErrorDoctor may appear to be harmless, it is a security risk to your computer and it may actually expose you to more security threats by installing other malicious applications.
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W32/Benjamin is a network worm that infects Windows system. W32/Benjamin comes disguised as popular music, movie, or software files. W32/Benjamin spreads across KaZaA file-sharing networks by tricking KaZaA users into downloading the program and opening it. The size of the W32/Benjamin worm can vary because the worm pads copies of itself with garbage bytes.
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W32/Banwarum is a mass mailing worm that spreads through email and network and infects Windows systems. The infected email has an attachment, which is infected with the worm. The extension of the infected attachment will be double. The first extension will be exe and second extension will be zip. W32/Banwarum may also come with gif image that contains password to extract zip file. Upon execution of the infected attachment, W32/Banwarum copies itself as mszsrn32.dll in Windows System folder. W32/Banwarum will inject dll code to winlogon.exe process to load itself during each startup.
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Banwarum is a mass-mailing worm that spreads in the Internet by email and in local networks by exploiting computers running the Windows operating system with known vulnerabilities. Banwarum scans local drives for text and spreadsheet documents, as well as web pages and various programming files. Then Banwarum sends e-mail messages to all the addresses it gathers from found files by using own mail engine. Banwarum also opens a backdoor providing the attacker with remote unauthorized access to the compromised computer and allowing him to control the system and steal user sensitive information.
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