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Troj/Dloadr-BIA

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from March 2008 (4.27)
Protection available since 25 January 2008 19:45:14 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Dloadr-BIA is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

When first run Troj/Dloadr-BIA copies itself to <Windows>\xpupdate.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run Troj/Dloadr-BIA on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows update loader
<Windows>\xpupdate.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
con
<Filename of executable>

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\Install\Version

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