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Troj/Agent-HEC

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 July 2008 09:18:48 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-HEC is an information stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/Agent-HEC copies itself to <Windows>\svchost.exe and creates the following registry entry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
explorer.exe
<Windows>\svchost.exe

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