Troj/Manager-A

Category	Viruses and Spyware
Type	Trojan
What to do	If you've received an alert for a virus or spyware, then follow the instructions for removing the threat.
Prevalence	low high

Summary


Affected operating systems	Windows
Characteristics	Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from	December 2004 (3.88)
Protection available since	26 October 2004 17:15:38 (GMT)
Last updated	27 October 2004 13:49:22 (GMT)
Detected by	All Sophos products

Troj/Manager-A is a backdoor Trojan.

The Trojan listens for backdoor commands on a random port number.

Troj/Manager-A copies itself to the Windows system folder as TASKMGN.EXE and sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Windows Task Manager = "C:\windows\system32\taskmgn.exe"

Troj/Manager-A also creates registry entries in the following location:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\DMSDOS\

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