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Troj/IM-SR

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 3 April 2006 21:52:59 (GMT)
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Troj/IM-SR is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/IM-SR will run in the background monitoring open windows for instant messaging clients. If one is found Troj/IM-SR will submit advertisements in the form of instant messages containing links to a website.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/IM-SR on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
IMprocess
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\IMAdvertiser\AOL\
HKCU\Software\IMAdvertiser\MSN\
HKCU\Software\IMAdvertiser\Yahoo\

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