-- Update February 12th 2004 --
A new variant of Proxy-MitGlieder was received, which is intended to propagate via the backdoor installed by W32/Mydoom.a@MM and W32/Mydoom.b@MM . This variant is 10,240 bytes in size, and is UPX packed. It is detected as:
Proxy-MitGlieder variant by McAfee products running the 4317 DATs or greater.
Exploit-Mydoom by McAfee gateway products running the 4323 DATs.
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This is a detection for a backdoor trojan that also tries to download further malicious files. There are multiple versions of this trojan proxy - the details below are specific to one such variant. Exact details such as filename, Registry key name, filesize etc will vary.
After execution, it copies itself to %windir%\system32 folder and creates a registry key in order to get executed on systemboot.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\
Run "ssgrate.exe" = C:\WINNT\System32\system.exe
It monitors the process list and tries to termintate programs with these names:
More: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100944

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