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Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Cidra.a

Alert Level : Medium
Discovered: Feb 19 2007
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Discoverer and Source: http://www.kaspersky.com/

Malware Behavior and Technical Description

This Trojan program turns the victim machine into a proxy server. It is a Windows PE EXE file. It is 57,344 bytes in size. Payload

The Trojan creates a SOCKS proxy server on a randomly chosen TCP port. The number of the open port and the victim machine

Removal Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Cidra.a instructions:

If your computer does not have an up-to-date antivirus, or does not have an antivirus solution at all, follow the instructions below to delete the malicious program:

  1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Trojan process.
  2. Delete the original Trojan file (the location will depend on how the program originally penetrated the victim machine).
  3. Delete the following key from the system registry: [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
    "UsbD" = "usb_d.exe"
  4. Update your antivirus databases and perform a full scan of the computer (download a trial version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus).

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