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Troj/Hugesot-A

Aliases
  • Trojan.Hugesot
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 28 January 2006 16:17:38 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Hugesot-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan may be contained in a CHM (compiled help) file which drops svchost.exe to <Windows folder>\Downloaded Program Files.

The svchost.exe file (also detected as Troj/Hugesot-A) downloads additional files from a remote site. The downloaded file is saved to the current folder as "Avpsvc.exe". The file was not available at the time of writing.

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