Sophos

Troj/BHO-EU

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
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/BHO-EU is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/BHO-EU is installed it creates the file <System>\<random characters>.dll.

The above mentioned file is registered as a COM object and Browser Helper Object (BHO) for Microsoft Internet Explorer, creating registry entries under:

HKCR\CLSID\{Random GUID}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{Random GUID

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