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Troj/FakeAle-AR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 4 March 2008 09:43:44 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/FakeAle-AR is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/FakeAle-AR copies itself to <System>\mgmrwmrv.exe and creates the file <System>\winfrun32.bin. The file winfrun32.bin can be safely removed.

Troj/FakeAle-AR sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\mgmrwmrv.exe,

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