Sophos

Troj/FakeAle-CS

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 30 June 2008 06:57:01 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/FakeAle-CS is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/FakeAle-CS copies itself to <Program Files>\XP Antivirus\xpa.exe and sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<random numbers>
<Program Files>\XP Antivirus\xpa.exe

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