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Troj/MailBot-CF

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 June 2007 02:47:35 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/MailBot-CF is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

The Trojan may be used to send unsolicited emails from an infected computer.

When first run Troj/MailBot-CF copies itself to <System>\dcmsxe.exe.

The following registry entries are created to run dcmsxe.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
audlmne32
<System>\dcmsxe.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
audlmne32
<System>\dcmsxe.exe

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