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Troj/Myss-C

by Marianna Schmudlach Feb 9, 2004 1:18AM PST

Aliases
TrojanDownloader.Win32.Donn.r, Downloader-DS

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/Myss-C is a simple Trojan that overwrites the file Windows\Hosts.sam under Win9x and Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts under NT-based systems with '127.0.0.1 localhost'.
Troj/Myss-C will then attempt to download and run the file Sys.exe from http://teens3.com/dialler/new2/1/m121689.mpg.

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