Sunday, November 9, 2008

Iceland Trojan

Removing Iceland
Categories: Trojan,Backdoor,Downloader,DoS
This category includes a variety of Trojans that damage victim machines or
threaten data integrity, or impair the functioning of the victim machine.
Backdoors are used by virus writers to detect and download confidential information,
execute malicious code, destroy data, include the machine in bot networks and so forth.

This family of Trojans downloads and installs new malware or adware on the computer.
The downloader then either launches the new malware or registers it to enable autorun
according to the local operating system requirements.

The names and locations of malware to be downloaded are either coded into the
Trojan or downloaded from a specified website.
DoS programs attack web servers by sending numerous requests to the specified server,
often causing it to crash under an excessive volume of requests.



Iceland Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Saratoga.656,Saratoga.632.a,Mix.1636;
[Eset]Icelndic.656.A virus,Icelndic.632.A virus,Icelndic.1636 virus;
[McAfee]Iceland;
[F-Prot]Icelandic.1636;
[Panda]Icelandic.650;
[Computer Associates]Icelandic 1,Icelandic-2,Icelandic 2,Icelandic-3,Mix 1b,Mix1-B

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%WINDOWS%]\winsys.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\winsys.exe

How to detect Iceland:

Files:
[%WINDOWS%]\winsys.exe
[%WINDOWS%]\winsys.exe

Removing Iceland:

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Also Be Aware of the Following Threats:

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