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Troj/GWGhost-T

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Agent.hv
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 October 2005 05:18:33 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/GWGhost-T is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

When first run Troj/GWGhost-T copies itself to <System>\foxrxjh.exe and creates the file <System>\locarxjh.sls.

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

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

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