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Troj/Agent-EMB

Aliases
  • W32/Agent.BTZ
  • Rootkit.Win32.Agent.dq
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 April 2007 00:03:43 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-EMB is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/Agent-EMB is installed the following files are created:

<System>\drivers\ip6fw.sys
<System>\drivers\runtime.sys

Both of these files are also detected as Troj/Agent-EMB.

The file runtime.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "Runtime". Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Runtime

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