HackTool.Win32.HackAV

HackTool.Win32.HackAV or not-a-virus:Keygen (or HackTool:Win32/Keygen (Microsoft Malware Protection Center)) is the definition from Kaspersky Labs for a program designed to assist hacking. These programs often contain the signatures of potential malware, that is not dangerous by itself, but can interfere with the work on a PC, or can be used by a hacker to get some personal information from a user's computer.

According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center, its first known detection goes back to July 16, 2009.[1][2]

Behaviour

This riskware is able to create license keys for illegally downloaded, non-registered software. This kind of tool may appear differently, depending on what software the tool is designed to create a key for.[1] The following security threats were most often found on PCs that have been related to these tools:

Other aliases
gollark: Also, the "disaster is inevitable" thing seems... wrong. I think if stuff is handled correctly humanity can weather the problems we currently are and are going to experience and, er, do well. Problem is that there are lots of ways to do things very wrong.
gollark: *Probably* still better than before cities and stuff. Diseases spread anyway then, but less so, and we can actually treat them and have hygiene and sanitation now.
gollark: Still, I think on the whole we're better off disease-wise than the people of, say, 400 years ago.
gollark: Hmm, I suppose so on the population densities one.
gollark: I mean, spreading them better because of increased global travel, sure, but we can also actually treat them now (ish).

See also

References
  1. HackTool:Win32/Keygen
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.