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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Characteristics |
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| Protection available since | 17 January 2005 09:45:09 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Troj/StartPa-EM is a Windows Trojan that changes the Internet Explorer start page.
In order to run automatically at computer logon the Trojan copies itself to %SYSTEM%\inetsrv.exe and %SYSTEM%\ielogon.exe and creates the following registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Internet Server
%SYSTEM%\inetsrv.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe %SYSTEM%\inetsrv.exe
Troj/StartPa-EM also changes the default Internet Explorer start page by creating the following registry entry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
The Trojan also changes the following registry entry from:
HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command
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C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE %1
to:
HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command
@
%SYSTEM%\ielogon.exe "%1"
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