Panda Security today announced that PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has discovered two spoof P2P application installers, BitRoll-5.0.0.0 and Torrent101-4.5.0.0 that are being used to install the Lop adware on users' systems. These programs are used to exchange files between remote users and both these installers are available for download on the Internet, so any user could access them and become infected.
The Lop adware is designed to display ads from various advertisers through pop-up windows, banners, etc. It also switches the Internet Explorer home page to its own search engine. When searches are made with this engine, the results returned will be advertising pages related to the search words.
Other false applications are also being used by cyber-crooks to install malicious code, such as a program called wavesoftwarecreative.exe (which passes itself off as audio software) or another called bitdownloadsetup.exe.
To help prevent detection, this adware connects periodically to a Web page from which it downloads new files containing variants of the code and making it difficult to delete all active malicious files on the system. If users try to use the program installed, they will be able to search for files but not download them.
"Very often, users unwittingly 'consent' to installing adware through clauses in the license agreements of other programs," explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. "In this case however, there is no mention in the agreement about the installation of Lop."
You can check, free of charge, if your PC has been infected with this malware at the Infected or Not website http://www.infectedornot.com.
About PandaLabs
Since 1990, its mission has been to detect and eliminate new threats as rapidly as possible to offer our clients maximum security. To do so, PandaLabs has an innovative automated system that analyzes and classifies thousands of new samples a day and returns automatic verdicts (malware or goodware). This system is the basis of collective intelligence, Panda Security's new security model which can even detect malware that has evaded other security solutions. More information is available in the PandaLabs blog: http://www.pandalabs.com
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