HOSTSMON.EXE - Dangerous
HOSTSMON.EXE
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Manual removal instructions:
HOSTSMON.EXE is known as: Trojan.Generic [PCTools] Backdoor.Win32.Small.eiu [Kaspersky Lab] Generic BackDoor [McAfee] Mal/Generic-A [Sophos] Trojan:Win32/Dynamer!dtc [Microsoft] Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small [Ikarus] Win-Trojan/Downloader.24576.VA [AhnLab].
MD5 of HOSTSMON.EXE = B63FFE69A072517B66D6A417B4E38068
HOSTSMON.EXE size is 24576 bytes.
Full path on a computer: %SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\HOSTS\HOSTSMON.EXE
Related Files:
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\CMD.TXT
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\DOWNLOADER\DOWNLOADER.EXE
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\HOSTS\HOSTS.EXE
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\HOSTS\HOSTSMON.EXE
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\HOSTS\SERVER.TXT
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\IRC\IRC.EXE
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\IRC\SERVER.TXT
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\MANAGER.EXE
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\MSWINSCK.OCX
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\SERVERS.TXT
%SYSTEM%\DRIVERS\SETUP\STARTUP.REG