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Troj/Agent-KOB

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 22 July 2009 16:59:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When Troj/Agent-KOB is installed it creates the file <Windows>\svchost.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run svchost.exe on startup:

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

Registry entries are set as follows:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
msconfig.exe
msconfig.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
regedit.exe
regedit.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
DisallowRun
0x00000001

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