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Troj/Agent-GVM

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 8 April 2008 18:18:38 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Agent-GVM copies itself to <System>\mswinsock.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{00A59398-C81D-E69F-D6A4-6924A05803FD}
StubPath
<System>\mswinsock.exe

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