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Troj/Sandbox-A

Feb 26, 2004 12:24AM PST

Aliases
BKDR_SANDBOX.A

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/Sandbox-A is a Trojan that copies itself to the default system folder a number of times as files with randomly generated names and hidden and system attributes.
Once running Troj/Sandbox-A will continually try to connect to the internet in an attempt to download files and possibly to try and update itself.

Troj/Sandbox-A will also set the following registry entry to ensure that it will always be run on system restart:

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

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

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