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WORM_AUTORUN.BPN
Overview

Malware type: Worm

Aliases: No Alias Found

In the wild: Yes

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Reported infections:

Damage potential:

Medium

Distribution potential:

Medium

Infection Channel 1 : Propagates via removable drives


Infection Channel 2 : Copies itself in all available physical drives


Description: 

This worm may be dropped by other malware. It may be downloaded unknowingly by a user when visiting malicious Web sites.

It creates registry entries to enable its automatic execution at every system startup.

It modifies registry entries to hide files with both System and Read-only attributes.

It drops copies of itself in all physical and removable drives. It drops an AUTORUN.INF file to automatically execute dropped copies when the drives are accessed.

It monitors certain processes to steal sensitive information, such as user names and passwords, related to certain online games.

It drops files. As a result, the routines of the dropped files may be exhibited on the system.

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Solution
Technical Details

Description created: Apr. 21, 2008 9:03:54 AM GMT -0800

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