Trojan.Alemod

Trojan.Alemod is a Trojan horse that infects wininet.dll and monitors all Web traffic. It also modifies the desktop setting and downloads files from the Internet.

Note: Virus definitions dated October 10th 2005 or earlier may detect this threat as W32.Desktophijack.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version June 20, 2005
• Latest Rapid Release version June 30, 2009 revision 037
• Initial Daily Certified version June 20, 2005
• Latest Daily Certified version June 30, 2009 revision 048
• Initial Weekly Certified release date June 22, 2005

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Threat Assessment

Wild

• Wild Level: Low
• Number of Infections: 0 - 49
• Number of Sites: 0 - 2
• Geographical Distribution: Low
• Threat Containment: Easy
• Removal: Easy

Damage

• Damage Level: Low

Distribution

• Distribution Level: Low