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Troj/Qhost-H

Aliases
  • Generic.dx
  • Trojan.Win32.Qhost.aei
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 1 February 2008 18:50:49 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Qhost-H is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Qhost-H copies itself to <System>\explorer.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Qhost-H on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows Explorer
<System>\explorer.exe

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