Standard Registry locations affected by Virus's ,Spyware and Adware

[vighnesh]

Hai All

Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that are
affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

[garyusenet]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run

this is the most obivous one.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

HI,

I don't see ther relation with either csharp or VB , why r u posting this
here?

It does depend of the malware in question, download a very good utility to
monitoring the registry from sysinternals.com
--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.com> wrote in message
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Hai All

Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that
are affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

[Ken Halter]

"vighnesh" <vi******@nannacomputers.com> wrote in message
news:O4**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hai All

Can anybody please tell me what are the standard registry locations that
are affected by Virus's , Spyware and Adware Programs.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Vighneswar

Adding to the pile here.... if there were a published "Standard" for virus
writers, I assume everyone would simply make sure that part of the registry
was emptied before logging off each night.... then, we wouldn't need AV
software.

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Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB (visiting from VB6 world) - http://www.vbsight.com
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