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Troj/Proxy-X

Aliases
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Small.de
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 8 November 2005 11:04:58 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Proxy-X is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Proxy-X includes functionality to:

- access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP
- download files from the internet and run them
- setup a HTTP proxy to redirect internet traffic
- open TCP port 53

When Troj/Proxy-X is installed it creates the file <Windows>\nerocheck.exe.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Nero Checker
<Windows>\nerocheck.exe

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