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Troj/AOLPass-B

Aliases
  • Trojan-PSW.Win32.AOLPass.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from December 2005 (4.00)
Protection available since 27 October 2005 23:18:34 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/AOLPass-B is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/AOLPass-B will monitor activity looking for windows related to America Online(AOL). Once a matching window is found the Trojan will attempt to steal passwords and may send messages to other users.

When first run Troj/AOLPass-B copies itself to <System>\dpnsvr32.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run dpnsvr32.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
dpnsvr32
<System>\dpnsvr32.exe -quiet

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