Purtitan P2P Trojan Deletes Warez, Music & Porn

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Erazer-A is a trojan with a mission. It deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines.

Erazer-A is spreading across P2P networks, where it poses as useful program files, or through chat programs. If executed, the malware scours folders used for P2P apps for AVI, MP3, MPEG, WMV, GIF, ZIP and other files. It then erases any porn, warez, music or any other matching file type found in P2P directories before dropping copies of itself (using names such as names such as game.exe, goporn.exe, nero7.exe and officexpcrack.exe) in the shared folders of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. Erazer-A also turns off security applications running on the compromised machine.

To summarize it:

  • Turns off anti-virus applications
  • Deletes files off the computer
  • Steals information
  • Drops more malware
  • Reduces system security
  • Installs itself in the Registry

via Register

Pretty bad for a smut cleaner, eh?
What next? Virus which preaches Bible?

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