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Troj/Litebot-A

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.LiteBot.a
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from September 2005 (3.97)
Protection available since 7 August 2005 14:30:11 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Litebot-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Litebot-A runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels. Troj/Litebot-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Litebot-A runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/Litebot-A on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Litebot=
<pathname of the Trojan executable>

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