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Troj/He4Hook-A

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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
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More Information

Troj/He4Hook-A is a driver component of Hacker Defender rootkit detected as variants of Troj/HacDef.

It will prevent detection of vaious malwares of the client computer. The existence of Troj/He4Hook-A signals a large probability that Troj/HacDef is installed on the infected machine. In many cases, Troj/He4Hook-A is dropped by Troj/HacDef located in a hidden directory.

Removal of Troj/He4Hook-A normally requires removing Troj/HacDef from the system first.

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