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Troj/Mailbot-BZ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 May 2007 09:24:12 (GMT)
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More Information

Troj/Mailbot-BZ is an IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
                                    
Troj/Mailbot-BZ gives a remote intruder access to a compromised computer, and allows them to send arbitrary emails, making the infected computer act as an email proxy.
                                    
When run Troj/Mailbot-BZ copies itself to <System>\smcntlwio.exe.
                                    
The following registry entry is set to run Troj/Mailbot-BZ on startup:
                                    
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
sacmemds
<System>\smcntlwio.exe

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