Apophis Spy Software : What Is Apophis Spy Software?


Apophis Spy is a commercial monitoring program, which can be utilized to invade your privacy and keep a track of the activity on your computer. If used with consent such as in work places to keep a track of employees, it can be helpful.

However, when used without consent, this malware can track all the keys which you press on your computer keyboard and can even distribute any vital information such as passwords and credit card numbers. For this reason, the software can be classified as a spyware. In fact, spywareguide.com recognizes this as a level 8 threat, which indicates that it is highly dangerous.

Apophis Spy utilizes stealth and key-logging technology to keep a track of the activity on the host computer without the knowledge of the user. Removal of the Apophis Spy spyware can be done by the use of anti-spyware software such as Spyware Doctor.

Manual removal of Apophis Spy is slightly more complex. First you have to disable the software by terminating the active programs of Apophis Spy (including Apophis Spy,   zxrwvh.exe,  keylogger.exe,   editkeylogger.exe,   aspy_srv.exe, apophisspy.exe,   aspy_srv.exe,   editkeylogger.exe,   keylogger.exe,   zxrwvh.exe, apophisspy.exe) in the task manager (which can be opened using the Ctrl+Shift+Esc command). After this, it is important to remove any entries of the spyware from the registry. Common entries in the registry are located in.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows \currentversion\runservices\regkeyname.

Other entries of the spyware should be searched for and removed from the registry. Finally, you must remove all the files, which are associated with the spyware. This list is the same as the list of possible Apophis Spy Programs, which is mentioned above. Search the computer for each one of them along with any associated dll and log files and delete them immediately. Due to complications and inefficacies, it is always better to perform a scan using an anti-spyware program after deletion, to ensure complete removal of the spyware.

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