Re: Unusual registry entries

[Jasmine <jasmine.chua () securecirt com>]

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I can't find much between the linkage of Forger & RedTeam, but I think they 
are memory resident viruses. 

http://www.avp.ch/avpve/newexe/windows/redteam.stm
http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=809

You may want to scan for viruses on your machine. 

On Friday 20 June 2003 04:14, btraquer () att net wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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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