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| Detected | Aug 04 2003 11:43 GMT |
| Released | Aug 04 2003 11:43 GMT |
| Published | Feb 19 2007 11:35 GMT |
This Trojan is designed to install and launch other programs on the victim machine. It is a Windows PE EXE file. The file is approximately 40KB in size.
When launched, the Trojan copies its executable file to the Windows system directory under the following name:
%System%\scvhosts.exe
The Trojan also extracts the following DLL file from its body:
The Trojan then loads this DLL into the explorer.exe process address space and ceases running.
If your computer does not have an up-to-date antivirus, or does not have an antivirus solution at all, follow the instructions below to delete the malicious program:
%System%\scvhosts.exe %System%\rwtrisfg32.dll
Trojan-Dropper programs are designed to secretly install malicious programs built into their code to victim computers.
This type of malicious program usually save a range of files to the victim’s drive (usually to the Windows directory, the Windows system directory, temporary directory etc.), and launches them without any notification (or with fake notification of an archive error, an outdated operating system version, etc.).
Such programs are used by hackers to:
Trojan-Dropper.