Dewin

Summary

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Dewin is a backdoor that can be used by an attacker to install unwanted programs from a website to the victim machine. When started it copies itself to Windows Directory as 'Winreg.exe'. This copy of the file is added to the registry as

'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SystemReg'  

Removal

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- Locate and remove the registry key

'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SystemReg'  

- Reboot the machine

- Instruct F-Secure Anti-Virus to delete the infected file

Detection

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F-Secure Anti-Virus can detect this backdoor with the latest updates.

Technical Details:F-Secure Corp.; April 15th, 2002