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Troj/Loony-B

Feb 26, 2004 12:15AM PST

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/Loony-B is a backdoor Trojan that allows unauthorised access and control of the computer from a remote network location.
Troj/Loony-B copies itself to the Windows system folder as wstat32.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to run on system startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Wstat32 driver

Troj/Loony-B may display the fake error message "A valid data link was not found, deleting file."

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

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