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Troj/KillAV-FK

Aliases
  • Trojan.Win32.KillAV.fk
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 11 August 2005 21:04:16 (GMT)
Last updated 9 September 2005 17:19:32 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/KillAV-FK is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/KillAV-FK attempts to stop security related processes and services.

When first run Troj/KillAV-FK copies itself to <Windows>\killer.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Dlload
<Windows>\killer.exe

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