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Troj/Agent-GSX

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 15 March 2008 15:39:44 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When Troj/Agent-GSX is installed it creates the file <System>\ntos.exe.

The following registry entry is changed to run ntos.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,<System>\ntos.exe,

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