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Troj/Spybot-DJ

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 March 2005 06:05:01 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Spybot-DJ is a backdoor Trojan which connects to a preconfigured IRC server.

When first run the Trojan moves itself to the Windows system folder as svcnow32.exe and creates the following registry entries so as to auto-start:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
PService
svcnow32.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
PService
svcnow32

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