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Troj/CWS-D

Aliases
  • Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Small.pb
  • AdClicker-BV
  • trojan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Protection available since 14 January 2005 19:46:06 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/CWS-D is a dropper Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/CWS-D will drop and register a DLL file named IETLBASS.DLL, detected as Troj/CWS-C.

Troj/CWS-D will then set the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AddClass

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\MSMsgSvc

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\MSMsgSvc

For further information, see Troj/CWS-C.

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