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Troj/Rootkit-CL

Aliases
  • TR/Rootkit.Gen
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 22 April 2008 19:05:15 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Rootkit-CL is a rootkit Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Rootkit-CL is typically installed by other Trojans, for example Troj/PWS-ARA is known to install Troj/Rootkit-CL to:

<System>\winio32.sys

The Troj/Rootkit-CL executable is registered as a system driver service with a startup type of automatic, creating registry entries under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Windows Installer

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