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Troj/Nofere-G

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 April 2007 06:58:03 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Nofere-G is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Nofere-G contains functionality to communicate with a remote server using HTTP, execute downloaded files, kill processes and remove registry entries.

When first run Troj/Nofere-G copies itself to <System>\rund1132.exe.

The following registry entry is set to run rund1132.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
avptask
<path of Trojan executable>

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