PWS-Gamania or PWS-Gamania.gen.a is a computer trojan discovered July 22, 2008. PWS-Gamania is a password stealing trojan which attempts to steal user information for certain online games.

The characteristics of this password stealer with regards to passwords stolen, sites accessed, files downloaded etc will differ, depending on the way in which the attacker had configured it. Hence, this is a general description.

PWS-Gamania is also knows as

• Trj/Lineage.BZE [Panda]
• Trojan.Win32.Vaklik.bkh [Kaspersky]
• Trojan:Win32/Meredrop [Microsoft]
• W32.Gammima.AG [Symantec]
• W32/Autorun-CL [Sophos]

My Dell D630 laptop is probably infected by this one. Good thing I am no gamer nor is there any important password this trojan can steal.

More information about PWS-Gamania can be found here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_147533.htm