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Troj/Proxy-IL

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 13 May 2008 14:14:32 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When Troj/Proxy-IL is installed the following files are created:

<System>\hidservs.dll
<System>\msnethlp.dll

The following registry entries are set, registering the file hidservs.dll as a service with a startup type of automatic, replacing any existing services named "HidServ":

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidServ\Parameters
ServiceDll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hidservs.dll

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidServ
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