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Troj/Zbot-ME

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 8 February 2010 21:21:18 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Zbot-ME is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Zbot-ME includes functionality to:

 - run automatically
 - copy itself to the <System> folder
 - create files in the <System> folder

When Troj/Zbot-ME is installed it creates the file <System>\sdra64.exe.

The following registry entry is changed to run sdra64.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
<System>\userinit.exe,<System>\sdra64.exe,

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