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Dangerous Trojan horses

Posted: June 4, 2008

'Dangerous Trojan horses' is a phrase that appears on a fake error message made by trojan makers to threaten and trick you into buying rogue anti-spyware applications like IE Antivirus. 'Dangerous Trojan horses' is similar to other popular fake error messages like Unknown Trojan, Trojan.Win32.Starfield, Trojan.Win32.LinkReplacer.

'Dangerous Trojan horses' error message is slightly accurate when it comes to stating that you have dangerous Trojan horses on your computer but the accuracy of its statement stops there. 'Dangerous Trojan horses' error message is the Trojan, therefore it is the problem and not the solution. Once you click the 'OK' link on the 'Dangerous Trojan horses' error message, a trial version of a rogue anti-spyware program will download.

Most of the fake video codecs that are circulating on the Web are infected with a Trojan called Trojan.Zlob. If your computer displays an 'Dangerous Trojan horses' error message similar to the example below, you may be infected with Trojan.Zlob.

'Dangerous Trojan horses' displays the following message:

"Attention. Some dangerous Trojan horses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\Windows. Download protection software now! Click OK to download the antispyware. (Recommended)"

'Dangerous Trojan horses' may pose a serious threat to your computer's privacy and security. 'Dangerous Trojan horses' may also change the homepage and monitor user's actions. Do not click on the 'Dangerous Trojan horses' error message and do not download any product it recommends.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 bone1.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following CLSID's were detected:
    HKEY..\..\{CLSID Path}549bc94f-06c7-db34-841d-44ebd1fd8f8d9ee490a6-4079-7698-56ba-34c832f16bc9

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