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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | June 2007 (4.18) |
| Protection available since | 17 January 2007 15:33:17 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 18 April 2007 10:23:51 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Mal/HckPk-A is a program that has been packed with a protection system typically used by malware authors.
Various malware families are detected as Mal/HckPk-A, including the following:
several mass-mailing worms such as the W32/Dref family (for example W32/Dref-Y)
aggressively spammed out Trojans (for example Troj/Dorf-Fam)
network worms with backdoor functionality (for example several members of the Rbot family)
In addition, a variety of files on malicious websites are detected as Mal/HckPk-A.
