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Troj/Volver-B

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 July 2005 05:56:16 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Volver-B is a IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Volver-B runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

When first run Troj/Volver-B copies itself to <User>\Application Data\Microsoft\fagent.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Volver-B on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
FS Agent
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

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