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Troj/Ranck-CR

Aliases
  • Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Ranky.gen
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2005 (3.96)
Protection available since 30 June 2005 13:47:59 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Ranck-CR is a proxy Trojan that allows a remote intruder to route HTTP traffic through the computer.

Troj/Ranck-CR sets an entry in the registry at the following location so as to run itself on system startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Services =
<path to Trojan>

Troj/Ranck-CR runs continuously in the background listening on a port.

Troj/Ranck-CR has been seen downloaded by W32/Mytob-CR.

Sophos's anti-virus products include Genotype ™ detection technology, which can proactively protect against new threats without requiring an update. Sophos customers have been protected against Troj/Ranck-CR (detected as Troj/Ranck-Fam) since version 3.93.

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