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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Dluca





NAME:Dluca
ALIAS:TrojanDownloader.Win32.Dluca
VARIANT:TrojanDownloader.Win32.Dluca.p

Dluca is a family of adware downloaders. Dluca components can be hiddenly dropped and activated on a computer when Internet Explorer is used to browse certain pages on Internet. When activated, Dluca connects to certain websites, downloads and activates additional components (executable files) and reports certain info about a computer where it is installed to a website.

VARIANT:TrojanDownloader.Win32.Dluca.t

The TrojanDownloader.Win32.Dluca.t variant hiddenly installs itself to system. It copies itself as infwin.exe and infwin-uninstall.exe files to Windows System folder and adds a startup key for the infwin.exe file into System Registry. The trojan downloader then deletes the file it was started from.

To manually ininstall Dluca trojan downloader from a computer it's enough to run its file with '/uninstall' command line option (no quotes).

Description created: April 8th, 2004;

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