Zeus Botnet

Zeus is a dangerous malicious application that is aimed primarily at stealing the banking details of targeted users. It is one of the most widespread and professionally-used malicious applications available today. There is even a Zeus Builder Toolkit which allows cyber criminals around the world to customize Zeus to provide any functions they want. Zeus is also known as WSNPoem and PRG among many others.

Zeus Botnet normally reaches a user’s system via spam emails that are apparently from legitimate websites. These emails contain links to malicious websites which will ask the user for their credentials and also tell them to download a particular file. The file contains a variant of Zeus Botnet, and it gets installed on the user’s system. More recently, social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace have also been targeted by variants of Zeus Botnet. These variants send messages to users of these social networking sites claiming that they need to download and install an ‘update tool’ to update their user profiles. This ‘update tool’ of course contains the variant of Zeus Botnet.

Once installed, Zeus waits until the user connects to the internet and downloads a configuration file which contains a list of web banking websites to get the user’s information for. Whenever the user visits a website on the list, Zeus Botnet will initiate a keylogger function and save all the keystrokes of the user. Zeus also has an agent in the web browser which may also inject false fields into web forms which the user will unknowingly fill, thereby submitting even more personal information to the developer of that Zeus variant. Zeus Botnet will periodically submit the information it has gathered on the user’s web banking activities to the malware developer.

As Zeus is a dangerous program that invades privacy, you should take measures to remove it as soon as you find a copy on your system. One of the important steps is to conduct a full system scan using genuine antivirus software such as Spyware Doctor with Antivirus as it can properly detect this type of malware.

However, due to the fact that manual removal of Zeus Botnet infections is also possible, it is recommended to take great care when following such a task. In order to manually remove infections Zeus Botnet, you need to stop its process and remove its single file.

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The first step in Zeus removal is to stop the following process:

• 088709.exe

The above process will most likely be unique to your installation. Therefore you can either bring up the Task Manager and see if you have a similar process running or use a well known security client like Spyware Doctor with Antivirus to scan for the threat.

Next, remove the following file from your hard disk:

• 088709.exe

Now your computer is safe from Zeus Botnet. However, inexperienced users are discouraged from attempting to remove Zeus manually as any mistake made during removal could damage the operating system. Therefore, inexperienced users are advised to use a web-based malware scanning/cleaning service such as www.onlinecomputerrepair.org or legitimate anti-malware to remove Zeus.

Other Software clients that Removevirus.org likes to use

• Spyware Doctor with Antivirus
• Norton
• Trend Micro
• Kaspersky
• AVG
• MalwareBytes

As always please post updates to the file traces. If yours are different then other users will find it helpful.