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Trj.Reboot

 
Threat LevelModerate threat
DamageHigh
DistributionNot widespread

Effects

Trj.Reboot does not have any destructive effects on the computer. The only effect of this Trojan is that the computer restarts for no apparent reason.

Infection strategy 

In order to carry out its infection, Trj.Reboot uses Visual Basic.5 libraries. Therefore, these libraries must be installed for this virus to infect a computer. To be more precise, it uses the file MSVBVM50.DLL.

Means of transmission 

Trj.Reboot does not use any specific mean to spread. It can use any of the means normally used by other viruses: floppy disks, CD-ROM, e-mails with infected attachments, Internet downloads, FTP, etc.

Further Details  

The file that carries out the infection is 177,664 bytes in size.