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Troj/MancSyn-B

Aliases
  • Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.bgy
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2006 (4.02)
Protection available since 22 December 2005 07:07:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Startup>\office.exe
<System>\hwdetect.exe

and creates the file <System>\walib32.dll.

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

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

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