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Troj/Dwnldr-HCX

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 6 May 2008 02:49:26 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Dwnldr-HCX is a Trojan downloader for the Windows platform.

Troj/Dwnldr-HCX has the functionality to:
-download a file from preconfigured URL to C:\pc\updater.exe, then run it.

The following registry entry is changed to run updater.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Run
updater
C:\pc\updater.exe

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