Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT

Posted: April 30, 2014

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	9/10
Infected PCs:	35

First Seen:	April 30, 2014
Last Seen:	September 5, 2019
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT is a generic Trojan detection that may be linked to worms or backdoor Trojans, as well as to threatening software that disguises its files as Windows components. While malware researchers cannot verify the consequences of individual Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT infections, likely attacks may include attempts to infect removable devices (or networks) or compromise online security in ways that grant third parties access to the machine. Deleting Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT with anti-malware products always is commendable in any situation where Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT is unlikely to be a false positive.

A Trojan by Any Other Name....

Although they are not preferable to specific detections that are developed for firmly-identified threats, heuristic or behavioral threat detections also have their place, for any anti-malware program. Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT is one of the heuristic detections that malware experts have seen rising in distribution this year, with new attacks compromising 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Like all heuristic detections, Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT's attacks may differ between two, different cases, and also may include occasional, incorrect detections. The latter, referred to as false positives, usually are resolved by updates to your anti-malware software. Until you can install an appropriate update, you can set Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT to be ignored as an 'exception.'

Research by malware analysts associates Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT with threatening executable (or EXE) files, in particular. These files may be concealable in a sub-directory of the Windows AppData folder or within the Recycling Bin. Worm-based Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT incidents may cause backups of Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT to be recreated with randomized file names after anti-malware tools are unsuccessful at removing all components of an infection, other issues known to be of concern with Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT infections may include:

The proliferation of threats through local networks and removable hard drives. You should avoid sharing USB devices unnecessarily and use strong network security settings that prevent threats related to Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT from installing themselves onto new machines.
Security vulnerabilities up to, and including backdoor exploits that may make way for other persons to manage your computer by issuing commands to it or installing other threats.

A Safe Resolution to a Generic Trojan Attack

Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT variants usually modify the Registry in ways that enable them to launch automatically and may make use of file names that falsely imply that they are parts of Windows. A thorough deletion of Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT and all of its components always should use anti-malware utilities, assuming they are accessible. Additional steps, including using Safe Mode, may be required before all threats related to Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT can be disabled.

In spite of a generalized detection for a general set of Trojan-reminiscent features, Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT always should be treated as a potentially significant threat to your computer's safety. Warnings from your anti-malware products are likely to be the only symptoms of a Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT infection, which is, malware experts note, just another reason to keep security software on your PC.

Trojan Horse Generic17.AMPT

Threat Metric

A Trojan by Any Other Name....

A Safe Resolution to a Generic Trojan Attack

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