Sophos

MailSkinner

Category
Type
What to do

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from May 2008 (4.29)
Protection available since 28 December 2006 15:24:56 (GMT)
Last updated 28 March 2008 12:07:43 (GMT)
Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows, versions 6 and 7 and PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange.

More Information

MailSkinner is an adware for the Windows platform.

When MailSkinner is installed the following files are created:

<Windows>\pack.epk
<Windows>\installer\54061.msi
<Windows>\temp\msksetup.log
<Windows>\msskinner
<System>\nvs2.inf

<Program Files>\MailSkinner\MailSkinner.exe
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\OLSkinner.dll
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\uninst.exe
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\anim_0.gif
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\anim_help.gif
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\banner.jpg
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\emo.bmp
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\SOFTWARE LICENSE.rtf
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\icon1.ico
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\OESkinner.dll

To run MailSkinner on startup the following registry entry is created:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MailSkinner
<Program Files>\MailSkinner\MailSkinner.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\MailSkinner
HKCU\Software\MailSkinner
HKCU\Software\epk_extr

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