Sophos

Troj/Agent-GWN

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 17 April 2008 22:53:40 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

<Temp>\_check32.bat - clean file, can be safely deleted
<Windows>\s32.txt - clean file, can be safely deleted
<System>\aspimgr.exe - also detected as Troj/Agent-GWN
<Windows>\ws386.ini - clean file, can be safely deleted

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

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspimgr

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Sft

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