UsbCharger to provide USB communication capabilities

UsbCharger to provide USB communication capabilities

In an advisory, the US-CERT warned that?he installer for the Energizer DUO software places the file UsbCharger.dll in the application’s directory and Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory.

When the Energizer UsbCharger software executes, it utilizes the UsbCharger.dll component for providing USB communication capabilities. UsbCharger.dll executes Arucer.dll via the Windows rundll32.exe mechanism, and it also configures Arucer of 14″ apple ibook g4 battery .dll to execute automatically when Windows starts by creating an entry in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run registry key.

Energizer has issued a statement acknowledging the issue.The company said it has?discontinued sale of this product and has removed the site to download the software of 15″ apple powerbook g4 aluminum battery . In addition, Energizer is directing consumers that downloaded the Windows version of the software to uninstall or otherwise remove the software from your computer.

According to US-CERT, the backdoor component of the Energizer UsbCharger software can be removed by deleting the Arucer.dll file from the Windows system32 directory of 17″ apple powerbook g4 battery . Because the backdoor hosted by rundll32.exe continues to run after the software has been uninstalled, the Windows may need to be restarted before this file can be removed.

This may be achieved with network perimeter devices or host-based software firewalls. The Energizer UsbCharger software does not automatically add an exception to the Windows Firewall for 7777/tcp or the backdoor application of 12″ apple ibook g4 battery . Users of an Energizer USB-powered battery recharger may find themselves infected with malware. The solution? You can use the product perfectly well without the software.