Cytron Description

The Cytron trojan displays unexpected commercial pop-up advertisements every time the user surfs the Internet. The parasite is distributed by e-mail. It comes in a letter saying that the user has received an e-card. Once the user clicks on a particular link in the letter, Cytron is secretly installed onto the system without any informed consent.

Type: Browser Helper Object

How Can You Detect Cytron?

Cytron has typically the following processes in memory:

• sec.dll
• potd.dll

Cytron creates the following registry entries:

• 3750BFA3-1392-4AF3-AF86-9D2D4776E5A4
• 3750BFA3-1392-4AF3-AF86-9D2D4776E5A4 ‘no brackets
• POTD

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