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VirTool:Win32/VBInject.gen!U
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: Generic BackDoor (McAfee) Troj/VB-EBX (Sophos) BACKDOOR.Trojan (Symantec)
Summary
VirTool:Win32/VBInject.gen!U is a generic detection of obfuscated Visual Basic compiled malicious code. The malicious code or file is usually encrypted and/or compressed, and is decrypted and decoded before it is injected into a process or dropped and executed.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may have been installed, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as Microsoft Security Essentials. For more information about using antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/av.aspx.
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