A trojan is a malicious program which is injected to or poses as a known application.
Questions tagged [trojan]
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Malwarebytes gives trojan warning for basic C# "Hello World!" program
Basically, I just ran a scan of my computer with Malwarebytes (updated the definitions before running), and it said my "helloworld" program written in C# has a trojan.
I know for a fact this is a false positive, as I only wrote the program 2-3 days…
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Antivirus detecting compiled C++ files as trojans
I had installed a c++ compiler for windows with MinGW. I tried to make a simple program:
#include
using namespace std;
int main() {
cout << "Hello World!";
return 0;
}
And saved it as try.cc. Afterwards I opened cmd in the folder…
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Protect website from Backdoor/PHP.C99Shell aka Trojan.Script.224490
My website was infected by a trojan script.
Somebody managed to create/upload a file called "x76x09.php" or "config.php" into my webspace's root directory. Its size is 44287 bytes and its MD5 checksum is 8dd76fc074b717fccfa30b86956992f8. I've…
caw
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JavaScript trojan dissection
I've recently been playing with allot of JavaScript and started to consider that I couldn't encounter a piece of JavaScript that I wouldn't be able to debug.
Well I was pleasantly surprised and angered today when we discovered a number of JavaScript…
Maxim Gershkovich
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How can you prevent Man in the Browser attacks?
Been reading up on MitB attacks and some things worry me about this.
From WIKI:
The use of strong authentication tools simply creates an increased level of misplaced confidence on the part of both customer and bank that the transaction is secure.
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android InstantRun - Norton Security finds Trojan
A week ago Norton Security started to find Trojan horse (Trojan.Gen.NPE.2) in file R.class located:
app\build\intermediates\transforms\instantrun\debug\folders\1\5\main\android\support\v4\…
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Is it possible for a Java JAR file to damage your system and how can you check what it's doing?
I want to evaluate a software solution where multiple people have submitted JAR files to perform a task on Windows.
Is it possible to check whether the JAR file performs any additional unwanted behaviors besides those it claims to perform on your…
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tools.build:gradle:2.3.1 infected with HEUR:Trojan.AndroidOS.Boogr.gsh
Since today when we build an App with latest Version of Android Studio and enabled instant run, Kaspersky starts to reporting us that something tries to inject HEUR:Trojan.AndroidOS.Boogr.gsh in our classes.dex. After some research i found out that…
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False positive detection of c# .net program by anti-virus as trojan
I have developed a windows service using C#.Net which collects data and send to my server using custom APIs on a regular interval basis with the client user's permission.
It was working fine until the user installed the anti-virus software…
krishh
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C homework - trojan found when compiling the code
I was coding some homework (101 level). When I tried to compile the code, I got some virus alert from bit defender:
#include
int main ( void ) {
int numbers [10];
int i, temp;
for (i = 1; i <= 10; ++i)
numbers[i] = 0;
printf("Enter…
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Program installed with Inno Setup seen as Trojan (Wacatac.B!ml)
My software is a .NET application. The original .exe compiled with Visual Studio works fine and Microsoft Defender has nothing to say about it or any of the dependencies.
I made an installer with INNO Setup, that has been working fine until now, on…
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Android admob quarantined by symantec
This morning I came back to my computer with this alert, see the image (the lower window is the properties of one of the entries above):
How do I investigate this? Can i use the hash presented to see if it is a false positive? Has anyone else…
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after converting batch file to exe Windows Defender shows the file as trojan why?
i wrote a batch script to delete shortcut virus from a usb drive and to display the hidden folder and files.
@ECHO OFF
TITLE SHORTCUT VIRUS REMOVER
ECHO SHORTCUT VIRUS TEMPORARY REMOVER
ECHO THIS TOOL IS MADE BY BHARGAB(MAXYSPARK)
SET /P DRIVE=ENTER…
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Javascript malicious injection / redirection by XML comment tags (JS/Exploit-Blacole.em)
I recently came along a web site which, inside its HTML markup, had a JS Trojan embedded. The McAfee name is JS/Exploit-Blacole.em, the F-Secure name is Trojan:JS/Agent, and the MS name is Trojan:JS/Quidvetis.A.
Now, out of curiosity, I took a look…
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Development tools infected?
My antivirus program (CA Anti-Virus) just started reporting the existence of "AndroidOS/SMSTroj.D!generic" in a few of the .dex files generated for my Android projects in Eclipse. (I'm not writing malware!)
Has anyone else seen anything similar?
Is…
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