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Troj/Trot-D

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2009 (4.38)
Protection available since 3 December 2008 20:00:50 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Trot-D is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Trot-D runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When first run Troj/Trot-D copies itself to <Windows>\wkssvr.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run wkssvr.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSN
<Windows>\wkssvr.exe

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