Sophos

Troj/Agent-HVV

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from November 2008 (4.35)
Protection available since 7 October 2008 14:32:35 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Agent-HVV has functionality to communicate with a remote internet site.

Troj/Agent-HVV copies itself to <Windows>\services.exe and creates the following registry entry to run itself on restart:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
services
<Windows>\services.exe

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