F-Secure Virus Descriptions : KillApp

[Summary] | [Detailed Description]

NAME:	KillApp
ALIAS:	Trojan.Win32.KillApp.c

Summary

This trojan can terminate processes in Windows. It can be used by malicious programs to terminate tasks of anti-virus and security software.

Detailed Description

This trojan can terminate selected or all Windows processes except the following ones:

 C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\START.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINOA386.MOD
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SYSTRAY.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\TASKMON.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\EXPLORER.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSTASK.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MPREXE.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSGSRV32.EXE
 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL

This trojan can be used to attack a Windows system. Disinfection solution for this trojan is deleting its file from a hard disk.

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Technical Details: Alexey Podrezov, December 3rd, 2003;

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