Sophos

Troj/PWS-APJ

Aliases
  • Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NFN
  • Virus.Win32.AutoRun.aet
  • Generic.dx
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2008 (4.26)
Protection available since 13 December 2007 17:41:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/PWS-APJ is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/PWS-APJ copies itself to <System>\avpo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\37.sys
<Temp>\wccjs.dll
<System>\avpo0.dll

The file 37.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A and the file wccjs.dll is detected as Troj/Dload-AA.

The following registry entry is created to run avpo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
avpa
<System>\avpo.exe

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