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Troj/Codebase-C

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
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More Information

Troj/Codebase-C exploits the CODEBASE vulnerability associated with certain versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer to run an executable file on the local computer.

Troj/Codebase-C is an HTML file containing an OBJECT element whose CODEBASE attribute points to an executable file.

Some variants of Troj/Codebase-C have executed files detected as Troj/Harnig-AL.

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