Trojan-psw.win32.fantast

Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is a fake threat that appears in pop-up messages and desktop warnings, which is associated with the fake antispyware: Security Master AV and its affiliated rogue sites.

This particular infection tends to tracks the user\'s keystrokes. Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is a Windows PE EXE file, and is approximately 40KB in size. Also important to note: Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is not packed in any way.

Once launched, Trojan-psw.win32.fantast may tend to copy itself to the Windows system and root directories under the following names:

%WinDir%winns.exe
%System%sys.exe

In order to ensure that Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is launched automatically each time Windows is restarted, the Trojan registers its executable file in the system registry, as follows:

[HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon]
\"Shell\" = \"Explorer.exe winns.exe\"
[HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun]
\"msgserv16_\" = \"%System%sys.exe\"

Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is an infection that facilitates the delivery of advertising content to the system user and in some cases may gather information from the user\'s computer, including information related to Internet browser usage and other computer habits. All in an attempt to get the user to purchase the fake antispyware: Security Masters AV

Trojan-psw.win32.fantast may monopolize the computer system’s resources and is largely responsible for the countless pop-up advertisements the user will be bombarded with.

Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is often bundled with or embedded within freeware programs like such as clocks, messengers, alerts, weather, and so on.

To avoid any unneeded risks of damage to your computer system, it is highly recommended to make use of a reliable and legitimate anti-spyware application, to remove Trojan-psw.win32.fantast and all its components from the infected computer system.

There are a few ways Trojan-psw.win32.fantast could have entered into a system, namely:
- The user’s operating system and Web browser security setting are too flexible
- The user does not follow safe Internet and PC practices.

There are a few symptoms affiliated with the Trojan-psw.win32.fantast infection, which are usually tell-tale signs of an infection:

1. PC is working slowly
2. New desktop shortcuts are displayed on the system
3. Annoying pop-up messages (in some cases) keep appearing on the PC
4. E-mails are being sent from your email address without your consent.

Although this type of program is not always malicious, it has been known to perform suspicious activity such as monitoring the user’s internet behavior, forwarding that along (with information regarding the other programs on your

The best way to be sure whether your system has been infected with Trojan-psw.win32.fantast is to perform a full computer system scan with a legitimate anti-spyware application. Should your system then be showing signs of Trojan-psw.win32.fantast’s presence, I suggest it be removed ASAP!