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Troj/Proxy-AA

Aliases
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Ranky.de
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Agent.ic
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 14 December 2005 22:25:37 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Proxy-AA is a proxy Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run Troj/Proxy-AA copies itself to <System>\FWMs32.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run FWMs32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
msfirewall32
<System>\FWMs32.exe

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