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OSX.Lamzev.A

Posted: January 11, 2012

OSX.Lamzev.A, also known as Lamzev Trojan is generated to create backdoors on Mac computers. OSX.Lamzev.A doesn't infect Macs remotely; it is installed by a person, who has physical access to the affected PC. OSX.Lamzev.A allows attackers to choose already installed program and port number to reach the PC system later. This creates a backdoor every time the program is run. OSX.Lamzev.A assures that the backdoor can be used all the time by adding the malicious program to ~/Library/LaunchAgents. The corrupted program must be restored to normal in order to remove OSX.Lamzev.A. PC users also has to use clean backup to restore ~/Library/LaunchAgents to previous state.

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