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Troj/DDosSmal-B

Feb 18, 2004 11:31PM PST

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/DDosSmal-B is a Trojan which attempts a denial-of-service attack on a website.
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up the Trojan copies itself to the file winsys.exe in the Windows folder and adds the following registry entry:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\winsys

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojddossmalb.html

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