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Troj/Iyus-P

Aliases
  • PWS-Banker.gen.t
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 27 December 2005 05:20:24 (GMT)
Last updated 2 January 2006 16:06:47 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Iyus-P is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Iyus-P copies itself to <System>\msiehelp.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Internet Explorer Helper
<System>\msiehelp.exe

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