MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A

MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A is a seditious monitoring application which monitors users’ activities on their PCs such as keystrokes, without their knowledge. This keylogger was first released on 29 April, 2010. MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A enters the system surreptitiously and will not alert the user to its presence, and will perform all of its tasks in the background, thus evading detection by the user and many security applications.

Because of its stealth nature and clandestine intrusion, the user will not be aware of MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A’s presence on the system. There are also no overt symptoms of this infection and the only alerts the user will have as to the presence of MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A will come from installed security tools.

The existence of the following files on the system may denote presence of MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A on the system:

deleteinfo.exe
SVCHOST.EXE
ReadInfo.exe
helperkbs.dll

Users infected with MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A are at risk of having their private and extremely sensitive data stolen and relayed to a third party. This keylogger will also install other malicious files and applications to the system, and the stolen information will allow remote hackers access to the user’s email and online banking accounts, among other private accounts.

MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A also operates under various other pseudonyms, such as Program.Monitor, SPR/KeyLogger.EZ, Generic PWS.y. This keylogger is distributed in a variety of ways, most notably through bundled software downloads obtained from third party websites. Of late it has also been reported that MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A is distributed via peer 2 peer chat applications such as MSN and Skype, as well as through suspect email attachments and through networks. In order to safeguard your PC and data, destroy MonitoringTool:Win32/DouglasKeylogger.A the moment it is detected with the help of a powerful and genuine security tool.