Re: Unusual registry entries

From: Brad (gryphonnat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 20:25:12 PDT

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    On 19 Jun 2003 at 20:14, btraquerat_private wrote:
    
    From:           	btraquerat_private
    To:             	incidentsat_private
    Subject:        	Unusual registry entries
    Date sent:      	Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:14:35 +0000
    
    > Today, while installing an app on a 98 box, we noticed that the user name and
    > organization that Windows was registered to was quite unusual.  The registry
    > key, HKLM-->Software-->Microsoft-->Windows-->CurrentVersion showed the following:
    > 
    > RegisteredOwner:  Forger
    > RegisteredOrganization:  RedTeam Art & Dev Lab
    > 
    > 
    > Have any of you ever seen or heard of anything like this before?
    > 
    > A search on Google only brought up four hits when I searched for redteam
    > +forger.    Had no luck using any other search.  Found some light info about 2
    > viruses that had one or the other in the name, but couldn't any definitive info
    > about either.
    
    Virus search results (minimal search):
    
    http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/vcl.shtml
    http://www.avp.ch/avpve/newexe/windows/redteam.stm
    
    Note that besides the Redteam kit, the worm itself is rather old.
    
    How much do you know of the history of the box, because the entries 
    may have been there for a while.
    
    Cheers,
    Brad
    
    
    
    
    
    > 
    > No unusual apps/processess "appear" to be installed/running and nothing unusual
    > appeared during a review of the system, but this is still very interesting...
    > 
    > If you have any info about this it would be greatly appreciated!!
    > 
    > Thanks!
    > Gene
    > 
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