Variant: Troj.Carberp.A
Operating Systems Affected: Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Troj.Carberp.A is a Trojan horse that has a high severity in damage potential. It has been identified that users could be infected with it by just visiting an infected website or by surfing on known malicious sites. This Trojan is designed to steal and intercept confidential information while sending and receiving data on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection. Websites on SSL connection are identifiable by it’s URL that starts with “HTTPS://” examples of websites that requires SSL are online banking, email servers, databases or intranets logins, online stores, etc…
What does Troj.Carberp.A do to your computer? It infects and manipulates the Windows OS processes files by injecting harmful codes in it. And every time you boot your computer it starts up automatically hidden and running in the background without your consent or knowledge of the destructive worm. As the name Trojan implies it’s on a stealth mode – It hides processes, files and registry values, making it literally invisible. Finally, it opens certain ports where it transmits and listens by remote commands. As of this time Troj.Carberp.A manual removal is not recommended due to the complexity of the Trojan infection. To users who are infected by this highly dangerous worm Hyperlink shown below is Bitdefender’s proven automatic Carberp Removal Tool.
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A friendly reminder to all PC users, please practice a responsible web surfing habit by avoiding malicious web sites and do update your Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware definition files and run a full system scan on a regular basis.