Trojan.Agent.CLK

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Short bio

Trojan.Agent.CLK is Malwarebytes’ detection name for a certain type of Trojanthat belongs to the Adware.Adclick family and infects Windows machines.

Type of infection

This family uses scheduled tasks to show user advertisements. It also collects information from the browser(s) and connects to an IRC server.This Trojan is offered at crackand keygensites under various names to trick users into downloading and running it.

Protection

Malwarebytes blocks Trojan.Agent.CLK

Home remediation

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.