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Troj/Agent-GNQ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from March 2008 (4.27)
Protection available since 25 January 2008 19:45:14 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-GNQ is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Agent-GNQ 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/Agent-GNQ copies itself to <Windows>\start.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Basla
<Windows>\start.exe

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