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Troj/AdClick-AC

Aliases
  • Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Agent.ac
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 18 November 2004 08:50:22 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/AdClick-AC is a popup and downloader Trojan for the Windows platform.

Periodically, Troj/AdClick-AC will create popup adverts using Internet Explorer.

The Trojan may also attempt to download updates of itself.

Troj/AdClick-AC installs itself as a Browser Help Object (BHO).

In order to run automatically, Troj/AdClick-AC will set the following registry entries:

HKCR\CLSID\(54645654-2225-4455-44A1-9F4543D34545)
(Default)
System Check Application

HKCR\CLSID\(54645654-2225-4455-44A1-9F4543D34545)\InProcServer32
(Default)
<path to Trojan DLL>

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad
SystemCheck2
(54645654-2225-4455-44A1-9F4543D34545)

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