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Troj/Messy-A

Aliases
  • JS_DLOADER.HQZ
  • VBS/Dldr.Agent.uit
  • Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.bfv
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)
Last updated 19 February 2008 16:20:44 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Messy-A is a JavaScript Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Messy-A directly attempts to download additional code from the internet. Troj/Messy-A also creates and attempts to execute additional scripts to download and run additional code from the internet.

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