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Troj/WowPWS-AW

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 20 March 2007 08:44:25 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/WowPWS-AW is an information stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

When run Troj/WowPWS-AW copies itself to <Windows>\mppds.exe and creates the file <System>\mppds.dll. The file mppds.dll is also detected as Troj/WowPWS-AW.

The following registry entry is created to run mppds.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
mppds
<Windows>\mppds.exe

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