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Troj/Agent-HEZ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 9 July 2008 02:49:48 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When run Troj/Agent-HEZ copies itself to <System>\ieupdates.exe and sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ieupdate
<System>\ieupdates.exe

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