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Troj/PWS-ACP

Aliases
  • PWS-JB
  • trojan
  • Win32/PSW.QQShou
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 17 October 2006 12:56:19 (GMT)
Last updated 11 April 2007 23:03:28 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/PWS-ACP is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

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

Troj/PWS-ACP also attempts to terminate a number of AV and security related processes.

When first run Troj/PWS-ACP copies itself to:

<Temp>\116501456
<System>\ravseteyns.exe

Troj/PWS-ACP creates the file <System>\winsylbtew.dll. This is in fact a text file, and may safely be deleted.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Rapdatybs
<System>\ravseteyns.exe

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