Trojan.Agent.ED

Short bio

Trojan.Agent.ED is Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for Trojansthat have not yet been classified, but they are dropped by exploit kits.

Type and source of infection

Trojan.Agent.ED is by definition dropped by an exploit kit. An exploit kit is a toolkit designed to facilitate the exploitation of client-side vulnerabilities most commonly found in browsers and their plugins in order to deliver malware on end users’ machines.

Protection

Malwarebytes blocks Trojan.Agent.ED

Home remediation

Malwarebytes can detect and remove Trojan.Agent.ED without further user interaction.

1. Please download Malwarebytesto your desktop.
2. Double-click MBSetup.exeand follow the prompts to install the program.
3. When your Malwarebytes for Windowsinstallation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
4. Click on the Get started button.
5. Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
6. Click Quarantineto remove the found threats.
7. Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.

Business remediation

How to remove Trojan.Agent.ED with the Malwarebytes Nebula console

You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

Choose the Scan + Quarantine option. Afterwards you can check the Detections pageto see which threats were found.

On the Quarantine pageyou can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.