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Troj/Ranck-DE

Aliases
  • TROJ_RANKY.HI
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 12 December 2005 14:01:29 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Ranck-DE is a backdoor Trojan which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer.

When first run Troj/Ranck-DE copies itself to <System>\msjp32.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run msjp32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
msjp
<System>\MSJP32.exe

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