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Troj/Spooner-D

by Marianna Schmudlach Feb 7, 2004 5:05AM PST

Aliases
Trojan.Win32.Spooner.d, TROJ_SPOONER.A

Type
Trojan

Description
Troj/Spooner-D will create links to a search engine on certain words and phrases that appear on the HTML being displayed by Internet Explorer.
The links are generated in memory and no files including the cached HTML documents are actually modified by the Trojan.

Examples of words and phrases that links are generated on are:
Canon copier toner
Application development
Online
Holiday
Investments
Digital certificates
Anti-virus

The following registry entry is created so that the Trojan is run when Windows starts up:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\sp

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