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Troj/DwnLdr-GWQ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 9 July 2007 00:43:42 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/DwnLdr-GWQ is a downloader Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/DwnLdr-GWQ copies itself to <System>\olpr.exe and creates the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
olpr
olpr.exe

Registry entries may also be created under:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\vvv

Troj/DwnLdr-GWQ also creates the file <System>\drivers\c656.tx. This file can be safely removed.

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