Sophos

Troj/Agent-GUB

Aliases
  • FDoS-Spabot trojan
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Agent.kj
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from May 2008 (4.29)
Protection available since 27 March 2008 11:27:35 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Agent-GUB copies itself to <Windows>\winlogon.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Agent-GUB on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
winlogon
<Windows>\winlogon.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Nvchost

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