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Troj/Agent-GOR

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 5 February 2008 10:22:19 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Agent-GOR copies itself to <System>\msdo.exe and creates the file <Current Folder>\j - detected as Troj/Agent-GOR

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\1
(C0FB7D08-D593-85A4-45E2-7A20A3430056)
StubPath
<System>\msdo.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSAX

When run Troj/Agent-GOR may display a fake error message box with the title "Error" and the text "Could not initialize installation".

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