Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic

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Short bio

Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic is Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for Trojansthat pretend to be a Microsoft service to mislead users and are not classified in another family.

Type and source of infection

Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic mimics legitimate Windows services to avoid being easily spotted by the users of affected systems. This Trojan can either be dropped by another malware or downloaded from suspicious (if not malicious) sites.

Protection

Malwarebytes protects users from Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic by using smart detection rules.

Home remediation

Malwarebytes can remove Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic 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.SVC.Generic with the Malwarebytes Nebula console

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

endpoint menu

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

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

Nebula detections

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

Nebula Quarantaine