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Troj/Dloadr-MC

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.acr
  • Downloader-QN
  • trojan
  • Trojan.Downloader.Agent-298
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 27 February 2006 22:42:13 (GMT)
Last updated 7 March 2006 15:29:20 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

Troj/Dloadr-MC includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When Troj/Dloadr-MC is installed it creates the file <Windows system folder>\XPAgent.exe.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
XPAgent
<Windows system folder>\XPAgent.exe

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