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Overview

This is a trojan detection for binaries generated by some malicious tool. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Characteristics

This is a generic detection that covers a various range of malefic executables all generated by the same tool.

Files detected under this name can be any type of worms, downloaders, backdoors, droppers or other types of trojans.

Symptoms

Symptoms of malware vary greatly.  Some common symptoms which may be observed in the case of Tibs detections are as follows.

    * Unknown processes are running.
    * Unknown ports are open.
    * Reduced system performance

This is a generic detection.  The specific symptoms may not be known as it is likely to vary vastly from one family of malware to the other.

Method of Infection

Running an infected file will directly infect files over local drives, network drives and removable drives.

Removal

All Users :
Use specified engine and DAT files for detection and removal. Delete files which contain this detection.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a trojan detection for binaries generated by some malicious tool. Unlike viruses, trojans do not self-replicate. They are spread manually, often under the premise that they are beneficial or wanted. The most common installation methods involve system or security exploitation, and unsuspecting users manually executing unknown programs. Distribution channels include email, malicious or hacked web pages, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This is a generic detection that covers a various range of malefic executables all generated by the same tool.

Files detected under this name can be any type of worms, downloaders, backdoors, droppers or other types of trojans.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

Symptoms of malware vary greatly.  Some common symptoms which may be observed in the case of Tibs detections are as follows.

    * Unknown processes are running.
    * Unknown ports are open.
    * Reduced system performance

This is a generic detection.  The specific symptoms may not be known as it is likely to vary vastly from one family of malware to the other.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

Running an infected file will directly infect files over local drives, network drives and removable drives.

Removal -

Removal -

All Users :
Use specified engine and DAT files for detection and removal. Delete files which contain this detection.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants -

N/A