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Published Apr 28, 2008 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Win32/Captiya

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

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Summary

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.
 
Win32/Captiya is a trojan that tries to decode CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is an acronym for 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart', which is usually used for creating new e-mail accounts. Decoded CAPTCHAs can be used to automatically register email accounts. The automatic mass creation of email accounts can be used for spamming or other malicious activities.
 
Win32/Captiya works in concert with Spammer:Win32/Newacc.A in order to automatically registers new e-mail accounts, and communicates with a Web Service in order to bypass CAPTCHA protection. Win32/Captiya communicates to remote sites in order to aid and complete the registration of new accounts.

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