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Trojan.VBS.UEF

Posted: May 12, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 164
First Seen: May 11, 2015
Last Seen: September 6, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Trojan.VBS.UEF is a Trojan infection that is was created via the Visual Basic Scripting language. Customarily, Trojans such as Trojan.VBS.UEF are known to infiltrate users' computers without permission and disguises itself as a useful software or software updates. Computer security experts have discovered that Trojan.VBS.UEF pretends to be an Avast! Free Antivirus installer. Once it has infiltrated your computer, Trojan.VBS.UEF installs a malicious script that may be utilized to download more malware to your PC by contacting a remote server. Trojan.VBS.UEF is also known to display a fake security message that looks like this:

"avast! Free Antivirus
Avast File System Shield has blocked a threat.
No further action is required."

Trojan.VBS.UEF has the capability of slowing your computer down significantly and may cause other types of fake alerts that are created to trick users into installing more malware. It is advised to ignore the fake notifications from Trojan.VBS.UEF and utilize a powerful anti-malware tool that would remove the infection and all the related files.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\wormSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\worm
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