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Troj/Hookie-B

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
Protection available since 16 February 2006 04:50:57 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Hookie-B is a Trojan used to created worms for the Windows platform.
Worms created by Troj/Hookie-B are detected by Sophos's anti-virus products as W32/Hookie-A. Troj/Hookie-B is a Trojan used to created worms for the Windows platform.
Worms created by Troj/Hookie-B are detected by Sophos's anti-virus products as W32/Hookie-A.

Troj/Hookie-B creates and registers as a COM server a file named actskn4.ocx in the Windows system folder. Actiskn4.ocx is not malicious.

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