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Updated on May 05, 2016
Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.
 
This threat is a part of the DDoS:Win32/Nitol malware family. It can use your PC for DDoS attacks.
 
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 15, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 04, 2023
Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 08, 2018

DDoS:Win32/Dofoil.A is a trojan that connects to a remote website to download and execute arbitrary files. It may also receive instructions from the remote server to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against certain websites.

On March 6, 2018, behavior monitoring and machine learning technologies in Microsoft Defender Antivirus stopped a Dofoil variant (also known as Smoke Loader) that tried to infect more than 400,000 computers. The massive campaign aimed to install a cryptocurrency miner that uses victim computers' resources for coin mining purposes. Learn how artificial intelligence stopped the attack within minutes:

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 19, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Jan 29, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 31, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

The attack typically targets websites. It perfoms the attack by sending random data to the site. This malware is usually installed as a bundle from other software taken from peer-to-peer shares.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 20, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Jan 28, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Nov 16, 2014
Microsoft security software detects and removes this family of threats. 
 
This trojan family can perform DDoS from your PC. They can also give a malicious hacker access and control of your PC, download and run files, and perform a number of other malicious activities.
 
Alert level: severe
Updated on Jan 19, 2016

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 09, 2012
DDoS:Win32/Nitol.C is a malicious program that is unable to spread of its own accord. It may perform a number of actions of an attacker's choice on an affected computer.
Alert level: severe
Updated on Aug 30, 2015

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Apr 25, 2016

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.

This trojan can use your PC for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without your knowledge.

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Alert level: severe
Updated on Sep 07, 2011
Alert level: severe
Updated on Aug 04, 2022
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 18, 2016
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 07, 2008
Alert level: severe
Updated on May 13, 2022
Alert level: severe
Updated on Oct 07, 2008
Alert level: severe