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Troj/QQSend-A

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.QQSender.h
  • PWS-QQSender
  • TSPY_QQSENDER.A
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 12 November 2005 05:58:36 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/QQSend-A is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run, Troj/QQSend-A copies itself to <Windows system
folder>\fswanQQ.exe.

Periodically Troj/QQSend-A will post the stolen information to a remote site.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
SysDesktop
<Windows system folder>\fswanQQ.exe

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