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Troj/PurScan-AE

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 1 August 2005 13:14:08 (GMT)
Last updated 9 August 2005 15:47:06 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/PurScan-AE is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/PurScan-AE includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

When first run Troj/PurScan-AE copies itself with a random filename to a folder with a random name in the Program Files folder.

The following registry entry is created to run Troj/PurScan-AE on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
<Random string>
<Program Files>\<Random folder>\<Random filename>.exe

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