Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa

Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa is a Trojan that communicates with remote entities and downloads other harmful files without your consent. These attacks may be used to allow remote attackers to control your PC or to infect your computer with other PC threats such as worms or viruses. Although there may be no signs of Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa active on your computer, Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa will exploit the Windows Registry to run automatically and will attempt to conceal Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's presence while remaining active. You should remove Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa whenever possible by using an anti-virus program, however, threat definition updates may be necessary to detect and delete Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa threats.

Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa: A Modern Trojan with Sophisticated Stealth Techniques

Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa tries to hide Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's malicious functions, while remaining active and unimpeded by your PC security. Accordingly, Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa will:

• Launch itself without your consent.This occurs whenever Windows starts due to malicious Windows Registry entries. Removing Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's files will not remove the Registry entries and may cause other problems for your computer.
• Use a randomized file name to avoid notice. One example of a file name that Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa has been observed to use is 'Jcxaxj.exe.'
• Conceal Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's files in your Application Data directory. In most PCs, the default location of this directory is C:\Documents and Settings\[User Profile Name]\Application Data.
• Conceal Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's processes in baseline Windows components like svchost.exe and services.exe. Since these processes are always active by default and may naturally have duplicates, they make detecting a Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa infection particularly difficult.

Don't Let Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa Grab Your Location

The payload for any given Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa infection can vary, since Trojans like Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa may receive configuration information that slightly alters their behavior. Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa has been seen making contact with websites that track the infected computer's IP address and general location. This may provide Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa with information to send to remote criminals who will then exploit that data to attack your computer.

Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa may also contact remote IRC servers to send or receive information, download harmful files and install them on your computer, disable your security software or alter settings such as opening ports. Since these characteristics indicate that Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa is designed to be the first step in letting remote criminals harm your computer or directly access it you should consider any possible Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa infection an extreme security breach.

You can remove Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa by using an anti-virus program that's been updated to detect recent threats like Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa. Since Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa has been seen infecting computers in June of 2011, Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa is still a new and propagating threat that should be defended against with vigor. It's recommended that you use a full system scan to delete Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa, since many of Trojan.Win32.VB.asfa's activities indicate that it may work alongside other threats that could also be downloaded to your PC.