apoint.exe
Alps Pointing-device Driver
Brief description of process apoint.exe
apoint.exe
Reported as a virus
No
Reported as a trojan horse
No
Reported as a spyware
No
Safe to end the process
Information isn't available
Safe to disable the process
Information isn't available
Safe to remove the process
Information isn't available
Developer
Part of
Alps Touchpad Drivers
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September 28, 2009 1:21:14 PM CEST
Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM – A new Trojan Downloader was spammed today. Trojan is attached in zip archive to emails in HTML format with subject "Hot game" and body text that claims some Angelina Jolie or Lara Croft undressing game. xgame.zip attachment contains xgame.exe (20992B) which drops executes and deletes kernel driver C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\runtime.sys and downloads another downloader smartdrv.exe. runtime.sys runs injects and hides Iexplore.exe process and downloads another components. xgame.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZM, smartdrv.exe is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.UZN, runtime.sys is detected as Trojan Downloader.Agent.THW and other downloaded components are detected as several variants of Trojan Backdoor.Ntrootkit.
February 16, 2010 4:18:39 PM CET
Infected Drivers CD? – Here's some news from the ESET Virus Lab in Slovakia. One of our clients encountered an interesting infection within his network. The problem seemed to originate from the drivers CD that comes with the device he bought, the Habey BIS-6550HD, a fanless Atom-powered system, though we haven't seen the CD itself. Our analysis of the CD [...]
June 13, 2006 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Windows SMB Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. The Microsoft SMB driver is susceptible to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability; updates are available.
February 2, 2010 9:38:40 AM CET
Be careful on help files – The other day, I came across a malware that attempts to hide its infection not in that technical but in the very unique way. “Muster” is a family of backdoor which has been using help files for hiding themselves. The help files or “.hlp” files are data files designed to be viewed with Microsoft WinHelp browser [...]
July 11, 2006 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Windows Server Driver Mailslot Remote Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Server driver is prone to a remote heap buffer-overflow vulnerability; fixes are available.
June 13, 2006 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft SMB Driver Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. The Microsoft SMB driver is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability; a fix is available.
October 14, 2008 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Windows AFD Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in the AFD driver; fixes are available.
July 11, 2006 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Windows Server Driver Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows Server driver is susceptible to a remote information-disclosure vulnerability; fixes are available.
June 13, 2006 2:00:00 AM CEST
Microsoft Windows TCP/IP Protocol Driver Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability – Type: Vulnerability. Microsoft Windows TCP/IP protocol driver is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability.
June 9, 2010 7:02:00 PM CEST
How to deal with a malware false positive – What to do when your security suite is wrongQUESTION Kaspersky is reporting that an ‘action similar to a PDM.Keylogger has been detected’. A virus scan finds nothing, but Detected Threats reports: ‘Type Path Name Criticality F C:\Program Files\Apoint\Apmsgfwd.exe Medium’. David Hey
