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Dial/HotKiss-A

Feb 11, 2004 1:43AM PST

Type
Dialler

Description
Dial/HotKiss-A is a premium rate porn dialler.
Dial/HotKiss-A copies itself to the Windows folder with the filename Hot_Kiss.exe and creates shortcuts on the Desktop and in the Start Menu.

The following registry entry is created so that dialler is run when Windows starts up:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Hot_Kiss
= <Windows> Hot_Kiss.exe -n.

Dial/HotKiss-A can be killed using the Task Manager. The process name will be Hot_Kiss.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/dialhotkissa.html

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