Sophos

Troj/Starter-F

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 30 April 2007 09:45:38 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Starter-F is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run, it copies itself to <System>\FLASH32.COM and creates the file <System>\BLOCKS.EXE. The file BLOCKS.exe is not malicious.

The following registry entry is created to run FLASH32.COM on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Flash32
<System>\FLASH32.COM -s

The following registry entry is set:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Run
Flash32
<System>\FLASH32.COM -s

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