Remove DarkShadow - Remote Access Trojan (RAT)

Remote Access Trojan or RAT for short is form of trojan horse that is often called backdoor because it provides the intruder, or remote user (hacker) special access (hole) to your PC from some control features to full control. DarkShadow is classified as RAT because of it affect to infected system. DarkShadow is considered to be very dangerous as it uses special technic to hide its activity from user and antivirus applications. Usually firewalls can detect its activity as DarkShadow regularly tries to access internet to grant an access to its owner.

Description of DarkShadow and certain parameters of the threat.

Their server parts have to be installed to the interacted platform as any other software with or without consumer information content. Their main destination is to let the empowered personnel to abstractly superintend and recover consumer computers. This DarkShadow supports plugins and therefore can have varied auxiliary functionality. The lattermost runs in the infected platform and collects commands from the intruder. This means that all platters would be formatted and all the files on them would be deleted. If the hacker was unable to acquire any beneficial and advantageous information from an wormy PC or have already walked off it, he ultimately may destroy the entire PC with a view to wipe out his tracks.

Threat data table:

Name of the threat:

Command or file name:

Threat type:

Affected OS:

DarkShadow

keyword.exe

Rat

Win32 (Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven)

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Threat's description and solution are developed by Security Stronghold security team.

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Removing DarkShadow manually.

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DarkShadow - ways of infecting

DarkShadow can infect your PC from different sources. It can infiltrate computer through peer-to-peer applications, adult sites and also it can come bundled with adware or spyware. Then it copies its file(s) to your hard disk. Its typical file name is keyword.exe . Then it creates new startup key with name DarkShadow and value keyword.exe and will then load on every boot up. You can also locate it in your processes list with name keyword.exe or DarkShadow.

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Manual guide for DarkShadow removal?

DarkShadow can be manually removed by locating and deleting all registry keys and files connected with DarkShadow and, of course, removing process from running on startup as well.

1. Remove the following processes:

• winfunctions.exe

Warning: you should delete only those files with the names exactly the same as in the list and located in folders listed below. There may be legitimate system files with the same or near the same names. We recommend you to use FREE WiperSoft Antispyware Malware Remediation Tool for guaranteed threat removal.

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2. Following folders created by DarkShadow also need to be removed:

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3. Using registry editor find and remove this registry entries:

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