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Troj/Sharp-I

Aliases
  • Trojan-Spy.Win32.Agent.m
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 August 2005 07:29:19 (GMT)
Last updated 6 November 2005 04:15:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Sharp-I is a Backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform. It will attempt to connect to remote website via threads injected into explorer.exe.

Troj/Sharp-I will install itself to:

<System>\boot.exe
<System>\fingen.exe

Troj/Sharp-I will attempt to autostart itself by modifying the following registry entries:

HKCR\exefile\shell\open\command = <System>\fingen.exe "%1" %*
HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command = <System>\fingen.exe "%1" %*

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