Sophos

Troj/MancSyn-A

Aliases
  • SyncMan
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from October 2005 (3.98)
Protection available since 12 August 2005 05:26:12 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When first run Troj/MancSyn-A copies itself to:

<Startup>\mosa.exe
<System>\winsync.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
syncman
<System>\winsync.exe

Troj/MancSyn-A may download and execute files from a remote server.

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