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Troj/Agent-HGQ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 18 July 2008 20:20:22 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/Agent-HGQ copies itself to <System>\kdupu.exe. This file is stealthed.

The following registry entry is changed to run kdupu.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
System
kdupu.exe

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