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Troj/Agent-LKZ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 15 October 2009 06:11:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Agent-LKZ includes functionality to run automatically and create files in the <WINDOWS>\system32 folder.

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

<User>\reader_s.exe
<System>\reader_s.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
reader_s
<System>\reader_s.exe

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