Trojan.Shylock!gen1
Posted: February 21, 2012
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 9,291 |
First Seen: | February 21, 2012 |
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Last Seen: | June 2, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Trojan.Shylock!gen1 is a dangerous Trojan infection that seizes network traffic and tries to add malicious code to it, depending on the configuration data it receives. Once Trojan.Shylock!gen1 is installed on a targeted machine, it copies itself to a random folder using a random name. Trojan.Shylock!gen1 then collects PC system data from the computer and saves it in a certain registry entry so that it could start each time when you turn on your computer. Trojan.Shylock!gen1 then uploads computer system information about the affected host and downloads configuration data from one of certain websites. Trojan.Shylock!gen1 uses rootkit functionality to disguise its existence on the corrupted PC. Remove Trojan.Shylock!gen1 as early as possible.
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