Sophos

Troj/VB-EAE

Aliases
  • Win32/VB.CWA
  • Backdoor.Win32.VB.ddj
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 2 July 2008 00:40:33 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/VB-EAE is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When Troj/VB-EAE is installed the following files are created:

<Windows>\Config\csrss.exe (also detected as Troj/VB-EAE)
<System>\mswinsck.ocx (clean Microsoft file)

The following registry entry is changed to run Troj/VB-EAE on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Shell
Explorer.exe <Windows>\Config\csrss.exe

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