Trojan:Win32/Horst.gen!B

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Win-Trojan/Horse.25088.B (AhnLab) Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Horst.acv (Kaspersky) BackDoor-CMQ (McAfee) W32/Horst.gen29 (Norman) Troj/MedBot-Gen (Sophos) Trojan.Horse.CIG (Sunbelt Software) TROJ_HORST.HE (Trend Micro)

Summary

Trojan:Win32/Horst.gen!B is a generic detection for a group of trojans that manipulates the web interfaces for free online e-mail service providers, such as Yahoo, AOL, Gmail and Hotmail, with the intention of registering e-mail accounts that can be utilized to send spam.

To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may be installed in your computer, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as the following:

For more information on antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/.

Trojan:Win32/Horst.gen!B

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