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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 11 August 2005 11:23:22 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Troj/Weasyw-B is a backdoor Trojan.
Troj/Weasyw-B contacts a preconfigured remote internet site and downloads instructions. The Trojan can perform a number of actions based on the downloaded commands.
The Trojan may download and execute EXE files (the Trojan may update itself in this way) and change the Microsoft Internet Explorer settings in the registry so that the default start and search pages are directed to URLs defined within the text file. Troj/Weasyw-B is a backdoor Trojan.
Troj/Weasyw-B contacts a preconfigured remote internet site and downloads instructions. The Trojan can perform a number of actions based on the downloaded commands.
The Trojan may download and execute EXE files (the Trojan may update itself in this way) and change the Microsoft Internet Explorer settings in the registry so that the default start and search pages are directed to URLs defined within the text file.
The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Weasyw-B on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
msresear
<pathname of the Trojan executable>
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