Sophos

Troj/Banhost-H

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 16 February 2008 20:28:08 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Banhost-H is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Banhost-E copies itself to <Temp>\win32.exe and attempts to delete and then replace the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts so that the computer is redirected when it attempts to visit certain banking websites.

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