Trojan.Tracur.C

The Trojan.Tracur.C Trojan: A Malware Infection That Sticks to Your Browser

The Trojan.Tracur.C Trojan, like many spyware, adware and browser hijacker infections, operates directly on your Internet browser. The Trojan.Tracur.C Trojan is infamous for not only infecting the Internet Explorer Internet browser, but then also infecting the Mozilla Firefox browser with a spyware component. Trojan.Tracur.C often takes the form of a fake Internet Explorer update for Adobe Flash. Once downloaded, the fake plug-in for Internet Explorer also installs a malicious add-on for the Firefox browser. This second Internet browser is well known for its extremely large library of useful add-ons. However, this freedom to customize your Internet browser is also a way for criminals to infect it with malware such as Trojan.Tracur.C. To avoid becoming infected with Trojan.Tracur.C, ESG security researchers recommend downloading all updates for Adobe Flash directly from the manufacturer, rather than from third-party websites.

Trojan.Tracur.C’s Associated Malware Infections and Dangerous Effects

Trojan.Tracur.C is closely related to the JavaScript Trojan Trojan.JS.Redirector.KY, designed to spy on all pages viewed on the user's Internet browser, particularly Firefox and Internet Explorer. This category of Trojans is closely related with browser hijackers, as they detect when the victim is visiting a search engine such as Bing, Yahoo or Google and then, inject malicious code onto the Web page to change the link of the first search result, so that Trojan.Tracur.C will take the user to a malicious website containing malware and other Trojans. This forms a sort of cascade effect, in that a little redirect can cause other malware to appear, which can, in turn, cause more to become installed on the infected computer. Before you know it, the victim's computer system can contain so much malware that it may be practical to wipe the hard drive and start clean.

General Overview of How Trojan.Tracur.C Trojan Attacks

The Trojan.Tracur.C Trojan attacks computer system with the Windows operating system. It starts up automatically and attempts to connect to a remote server. It can create registry entries such as HKCR\Zghypcxhle, HKCU\Software\Zghypcxhle, or HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Zghypcxhle, in order to infect your Internet browsers. Trojan.Tracur.C and related Trojan infections insert JavaScript into Web pages written in HTML and can also be contained in email messages based on HTML. A strong firewall and updated anti-malware application can often take care of Trojan.Tracur.C infections.

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