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F-Secure Malware Information Pages: Trojan-Clicker

[Summary]
Name :	Trojan-Clicker
Alias:	Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Agent, Trojan-Clicker.Win32, Trojan-Clicker, Trojan Clicker, Trojan-Clicker.HTML
Type:	Trojan
Category:	Malware
Platform:	W32

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Trojan-Clicker (Generic Description)

Trojan-Clicker is detection of trojan malware that remains resident in system memory and continuously or regularly attempts to connect to specific websites. This is done to inflate the visit counters for those specific pages.

The purpose of a trojan-clicker is to either earn money for appearing to drive traffic to specific sites (fraud) or to drain the budget of a competitor (attack) by artificially inflating the referrals that are paid for.

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Last Modified: January 01, 2006