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Troj/Agent-GVT

Aliases
  • Trojan.Win32.Agent.jit
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 10 April 2008 22:54:47 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

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

<System>\lrmon.exe
<System>\usp.exe

These files are both detected as Troj/Agent-GVT

The file lrmon.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "lrmon", with a display name of "Infrared Monitor" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lrmon\

The file USP.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "USP", with a display name of "Uninterruptible Power Supply" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USP\

The Trojan will remove any registry entries under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UPS\

<Sophos's anti-virus products include Behavioral Genotype® Protection, which can proactively guard against new threats without requiring an update. Sophos customers have been protected against Troj/Agent-GVT (detected as Sus/Behav-1011) since version 4.17.>

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