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Troj/Dloadr-JT

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Pacer.K
  • Downloader-AAI
  • Adware.Pacimedia
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 March 2006 15:48:22 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Dloadr-JT is a downloading Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Dloadr-JT downloads an adware application from www.pacimedia.com to apd123.exe in the Windows system folder.

The following registry entry is created to run apd123.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
APD123
<System>\APD123.exe

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