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Troj/Bdoor-AWB

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
  • Opens links to websites
Protection available since 10 July 2009 04:17:05 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bdoor-AWB is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Bdoor-AWB copies itself to <WINDOWS>\sysguard.exe and sets the following registry entry to run on startup:

  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\LowRiskFileTypes
  <WINDOWS>\sysguard.exe

Troj/Bdoor-AWB also modifies <SYSTEM>\drivers\etc\hosts.

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