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Troj/Agent-PL

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Agent.pl
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 4 December 2005 14:48:02 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Agent-PL contains the functionality to access the Internet. When first run Troj/Agent-PL copies itself to <System>\msbnc.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
explorer.exe <System>\msbnc.exe

(the default value for this registry entry is "Explorer.exe" which causes the Microsoft file <Windows>\Explorer.exe to be run on startup).

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