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Troj/Bckdr-QLT

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 9 February 2008 03:08:01 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Bckdr-QLT is a worm for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bckdr-QLT includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/Bckdr-QLT copies itself to <Common Files>\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\rejoicewei.exe and creates the following files:

<Common Files>\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\DaverDel.bat
<Windows>\SetupWay.TXT

These files are not malicious and can be deleted.

The file rejoicewei.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "Windows_wei", with a display name of "Windows_wei" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Windows_wei

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