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Troj/Agent-LSY

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 8 November 2009 07:17:23 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Agent-LSY includes functionality to run automatically.

When Troj/Agent-LSY is installed it creates the file <Temp>\5533xxx.dll.

The following registry entry is created to run code exported by 5533xxx.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
AppInit_DLLs
<Temp>\5533xxx.dll

Troj/Agent-LSY changes settings for Microsoft Internet Explorer by modifying values under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\

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