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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | May 2006 (4.05) |
| Protection available since | 12 July 2005 20:42:33 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 27 March 2006 04:43:04 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Troj/Singu-S is a Trojan for the Windows platform.
Troj/Singu-S includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.
Troj/Singu-S copies itself to the Windows system folder as taskmone.exe and creates the file winscket.dll in the same folder.
The following registry entry is created to run taskmone.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
taskmone
<Windows system folder>\taskmone.exe
The file winscket.dll is registered as a COM object and Browser Helper Object (BHO) for Microsoft Internet Explorer, creating registry entries under:
HKCR\CLSID\{EA806E03-A6B1-205A-117C-013309406392}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{EA806E03-A6B1-205A-117C-013309406392}
