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Troj/Dload-BG

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from March 2008 (4.27)
Protection available since 6 February 2008 03:25:37 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Dload-BG is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

Troj/Dload-BG will attempt to download and execute additional files.

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VideoPlugin

The Trojan also changes the following registry entries:

HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\BITS
Start
2

(default in Windows XP Pro SP2 is 3)

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BITS
Start
2

(default in Windows XP Pro SP2 is 3)

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