Sophos

Troj/Loony-P

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Hackarmy.gen.
  • W32/Spybot.worm.gen.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 December 2004 22:57:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products
  • Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
  • Small business solutions 4.0

Action

More Information

Troj/Loony-P is a backdoor Trojan which allows unauthorised remote access to infected computers via the IRC network.

In order to run automatically on Windows log-on, Troj/Loony-P copies itself to the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Msn Messenger =
"msnmsgs.exe"

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