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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 26 January 2007 23:58:41 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 8 March 2007 13:37:33 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Mal/Clagger-A is a family of Trojans for the Windows platform.
Mal/Clagger-A includes functionality to download and execute code from the internet. It is likely to be received in email having been aggressively spammed out to potential victims. A number of Mal/Clagger-A variants masquerade as fake billing information documents in the spammed out messages.
Exact behaviour will vary between variants, but Mal/Clagger-A Trojans typically perform the following actions:
- connect to a remote server and download additional code
- make changes to the system Registry in order to bypass the Windows firewall
- terminate processes for several security products
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