Trojan.Scar.hej is related to Spyware. Your computer\'s security and privacy may be at risk.

Trojan.Scar.hej is further classified by many experts as the following:
* System Back Door
* Cloaked Malware
* Malicious Software

The following are symptoms associated with this type of malicious application:

* Allows parasites associated with the file to operate invisibly in the background.
* May record your credit cards, bank passwords and other personal information. * Parasites operate on your PC while malicious file is present on the system.

Trojan.Scar.hej has been seen to perform the following behavior:

* Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
* The Process is packed and/or encrypted using a software packing process
* Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
* Writes to another Process\'s Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
* Looks at the contents of the autoexec.bat file
* Reads email address and phone book details
* Opens browser pop-up messages
* Visits web sites on your PC without you knowing
* Creates a hidden window which can be used to run other programs without your knowledge
* Adds products to the system registry
* Uses DNS to retrieve the IP address for web sites

Below is a list of features that will help define whether a file the likes of Trojan.Scar.hej and any of its affiliated components are legitimate or not:

* First examine the description, the product or the company signing – if signing is absent, misspelled or modified there is a high risk that the file is illegitimate.
* At initial activation illegitimate file opens a small window and immediately closes under the cursor. This process is called dummywin.exe and proves illegitimacy of the file.
* A file can get injected when cursor moves on the window and in this way activates the process. Usually certain files will display a notification.
* On a powerful PC the window will display and close instantly before you can even react.
* You can check information on the file online; this will reduce the risk of removing a legitimate program.

We recommend running a scan of the infected computer in order to detect any additional spyware threats. One should make use of a legitimate antispyware tool, to ensure this PC threat, Trojan.Scar.hej, is totally eradicated from the infected system.