Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic

Short bio

Trojan.Agent.SVC.Generic is Malwarebytes’ generic detection name for Trojans that 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 Malwarebytes to your desktop.
2. Double-click MBSetup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
3. When your Malwarebytes for Windows installation 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 Quarantine to 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.

Nebula endpoint tasks menu

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

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