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Troj/Daonol-Fam

Aliases
  • Rootkit.Win32.Agent.fwt
  • Trojan:Win32/Daonol.A
  • Trojan:Win32/Daonol.B
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 3 January 2009 02:56:36 (GMT)
Last updated 19 May 2009 15:03:25 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Daonol-Fam is a family of Trojans for the Windows platform.

Members of Troj/Daonol-Fam typically copy themselves to the Root folder and create some of the following files

<Root>\<random filename>.bat (clean batch file)
<System>\sysaudio.sys

The file sysaudio.sys is also a member of Troj/Daonol-Fam.

A registry entry is usually set similar to the following:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
aux
sysaudio.sys

Troj/Daonol-Fam attempts to redirect internet traffic from a number of websites.

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