MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon

MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon is a malicious software application which monitors PC and Internet activity. It is a monitoring tool, because by monitoring your activities this application can send important information out to third parties over the internet. For example, your banking information, such as your logins and passwords could be leaked, and then it would be only a matter of time, until you would be completely ripped off by cyber criminals.

Due to its nature MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon is capable of doing the following this: it can log keystrokes and record what your are writing about. It also saves the URL addresses of the sites you have visited. If that weren’t enough, this application also monitors instant message conversations and lists all the other applications which are running in your system. Everything that MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon records later on is sent to a third party by email or, it can be saved as a log file in your system.

There are also certain process files associated with this monitoring tool. For example, questbrowse137.exe is an adware, which is commonly found in infected systems. This application is very good at resisting the interrogation of security products. Also, another process, svajnager.exe is a piece of cloaked malware, which means it is rewrites and adds a registry key, so that it could start automatically whenever Windows boot up. These and other processes, which you can find in the list below, found in your Windows Task Manager is an obvious proof that you have been infected by MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon and you definitely need to do something about it.

It is possible to remove this malicious application manually, but if you are not sure how to do it exactly, better acquire a reliable malware scanner, because during manual removal you might make important (and negative) changes to your system, if you do not know what you are doing. Let the automatic scanner do the hardest part of the job for you and locate MonitoringTool:Win32/Actmon, so you can kill it efficiently later on.