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Troj/Mbroot-Gen

Aliases
  • Backdoor.Win32.Sinowal.a
  • BDS/Sinowal
  • StealthMBR
  • VirTool:WinNT/Sinowal.A
  • Trojan.Anserin
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from August 2008 (4.32)
Protection available since 22 May 2008 03:47:47 (GMT)
Last updated 3 July 2008 21:40:50 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Mbroot-Gen is a family of Trojan rootkit files, usually seen dropped by members of the Troj/Mbroot or Mal/Sinowa family of malware.

Members of this family typically include functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

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