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Troj/Bowfeed-A

Aliases
  • Trojan.Win32.Small.ej
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 June 2005 19:44:48 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Bowfeed-A is a proxy Trojan.

Troj/Bowfeed-A will copy itself to <Windows system folder>\combop.exe and set the following registry entry to run on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
combop.exe
combop.exe

Troj/Bowfeed-A will then contact a predefined remote server.

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