Kmspico Setup Exe Downloads Install
What exactly is your logic? 'It work's so i don't care.' You have download and ran untrusted software in an elevated privilege (administrator). Whoever wrote the modified version can now do WHATEVER THEY WANT on your system.
Setup Exe Downloads Install
Do you think maybe the people putting up 100's of unauthorized copies of this crack with a virus embedded are thinking 'lots of people just want something that works, so i'll make sure the tool actually works (activates windows) and I won't disable their computer (so that way my virus will continue doing its thing uninterrupted)'. Just because it's running on your pc and your pc boots up doesnt mean its not:. sending everything you type home. sending all your data home. monitoring everything you're doing, cookies, bank accounts, passwords, web traffic. using your machine as a bot in a botnet (your indifference could be a direct cause of DDoS attacks) But you don't care because your windows works.
Installed With. The application kmspico_setup.exe, “KMSpico Setup ” by ByELDI Certificate has been detected as PUP.ByELDICertificate.Installer.
That download has a timebomb built into it. There is a scheduled task to start a downloader that also changes your user access settings to your proxy settings and it sets a local host listening server and redirects all it's traffic through something. I'm not sure what it was because it didn't work correctly. The only thing that happened was I had Internet but could not load websites. Reboot would fix it every time though. Here are the files involved (2 are task files in the task scheduler).
Kmspico Setup Exe Download Install V7.exe
The installshield thing is actually legit, but I removed it from my system folder for future security reasons. The INI file is a legit file for complicated database things and they dropped their custom VBS code in there. Looking back at it now, the entire thing is a VBS script with all the other junk 'quoted' out. The end the comment notations makes only the VBS code run.