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Troj/Agent-EZ

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.Agent.aq
  • TSPY_AGENT.CN
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 9 November 2005 21:41:56 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Agent-EZ copies itself to <System>\ShellExt\rundll32.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run rundll32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
rundll32
<System>\SHELLEXT\rundll32.exe

Troj/Agent-EZ records keypresses and sends them to the author by email and via HTTP form submissions.

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