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Troj/MancSyn-E

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 27 March 2007 06:31:42 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/MancSyn-E is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/MancSyn-E includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/MancSyn-E copies itself to:

<Startup>\winamp.exe
<System>\wcescom32.exe

The following registry entries are created to run wcescom32.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ActiveSync
<System>\wcescom32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ActiveSync
<System>\wcescom32.exe

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