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Troj/Bckdr-QLX

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 21 February 2008 06:35:59 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

More Information

Troj/Bckdr-QLX is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bckdr-QLX runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.

Troj/Bckdr-QLX also has keyboard logging capabilities.

When the Trojan is installed it copies itself to <Windows>\svchost.exe

Troj/Bckdr-QLX creates the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Winsock
<Windows>\svchost.exe

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