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Published Jun 11, 2010 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Virus:Win32/Jadtre.E

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Win32/Wapomi.A (CA) Trojan.Starter.1410 (Dr.Web) Virus.Win32.Jadtre (Ikarus) Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.dryb (Kaspersky) W32/Fujacks.be (McAfee) W32/Pikorms.G (Norman) W32/Bototer.B (Panda) Win32.Cmt.b (Rising AV) Mal/EncPk-ND (Sophos) W32/Wapomi!inf (Symantec) PE_DOWN.A (Trend Micro)

Summary

Virus:Win32/Jadtre.E is a detection for a virus that infects Windows executable files, and spreads to computers via network shares and removable drives. The virus attempts to connect to a remote server to log its presence, and attempts to download and execute arbitrary files.
Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may have been installed, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as Microsoft Security Essentials, or the Microsoft Safety Scanner. For more information about using antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/av.aspx.
Recovering from recurring infections on a network
The following additional steps may need to be taken to completely remove this threat from an infected network, and to stop infections from recurring from this and other similar types of network-spreading malware:
 
  1. Ensure that an antivirus product is installed on ALL computers connected to the network that can access or host shares.
  2. Ensure that all available network shares are scanned with an up-to-date antivirus product.
  3. Restrict permissions as appropriate for network shares on your network. For more information on simple access control, please see: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb456977.aspx.
  4. Remove any unnecessary network shares or mapped drives.
 
Note: Additionally it may be necessary to temporarily change the permission on network shares to read-only until the disinfection process is complete.
Additional remediation instructions for this threat
This threat may make lasting changes to a computer’s configuration that are NOT restored by detecting and removing this threat. For more information on returning an infected computer to its pre-infected state, please see the following article/s: 
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