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Troj/Riados-A

Aliases
  • TROJ_KUMPFAD.A
  • Trojan-DDoS.Win32.Riados.a
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 3 November 2005 03:11:06 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Riados-A is a Trojan that attempts a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against www.riaa.com.

Troj/Riados-A copies itself to the Windows system folder as 3d_sound.exe and creates the following registry entry to ensure that the copy is run each time a user logs on:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
3d_sound
<System>\3d_sound.exe

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