Backdoor (Generic)

Summary

A remote administration utility that bypasses normal security mechanisms to secretly control a program, computer or network.

Disinfection & Removal

Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.

For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.

Technical Details

This is a Generic Detection that identifies files with backdoor-like characteristics or behavior.

About Backdoors

A backdoor is a Remote Administration Utility (RAT) that bypasses normal security mechanisms to secretly control a program, computer or network, almost always for malicious reasons.

For more general information about backdoors, please see the Backdoor description.

About Generic Detections

Unlike signature or single-file detections, a Generic Detection does not identify a unique or individual malicious program. Instead, a Generic Detection looks for broadly applicable code or behavior characteristics that indicate a file as potentially malicious, so that a single Generic Detection can efficiently identify dozens, or even hundreds of malware.

For more information about Generic Detections, please see the Generic Detection description.