Trojan.Agent.ED

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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 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

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.