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Troj/Psyme-BY

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.JS.Psyme.av
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Web browsing
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 22 June 2005 11:40:24 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Psyme-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Psyme-BY uses the ADODB vulnerability to download and execute files from a remote site.

Further details about the ADODB vulnerability are available from Microsoft at

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870669 Troj/Psyme-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Psyme-BY uses the ADODB vulnerability to download and execute files from a remote site. The downloaded files have names composed of up to 8 random letters.

At the time of writing, the downloaded file is detected as Troj/Agent-EM.

Further details about the ADODB vulnerability are available from Microsoft at

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870669

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