Troj/StartP-BY

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:17 Aug 2011 18:52:21 (GMT)
Type: Trojan Last Updated:17 Aug 2011 18:52:21 (GMT)
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Troj/StartP-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/StartP-BY is likely to be seen masquerading as a legitimate application (for example, trial version of some popular software). However, the installer includes malicious content which modifies the default homepage for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

For Internet Explorer, the following Registry entry is made:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
http://www.[removed].com/

For Firefox, the prefs.js file within each of the Mozilla profiles on the computer, is modified to set the browser.startup.homepage option to the same URL.

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