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Troj/WowPWS-AL

Aliases
  • Win32/PSW.WOW.JE
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 7 December 2006 04:19:36 (GMT)
Last updated 15 March 2007 07:56:03 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/WowPWS-AL is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform targeted at the online games World of Warcraft and MapleStory.

When run Troj/WowPWS-AL copies itself to <System>\svchqs.exe.

Once installed, Troj/WowPWS-AL actively monitors the system for user accesses to these online games and attempts to store information to the file
C:\FindErrLongForGame.txt. This file can be safely deleted.

The following registry entry is set to run Troj/WowPWS-AL on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
jiahus
<System>\svchqs.exe

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