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WORM_AUTORUN.BSE
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:

High

Infection Channel 1 : Propagates via removable drives


Infection Channel 2 : Copies itself in all available physical drives


Description: 

This worm may be downloaded from a certain remote site. It may also arrive via removable drives.

It modifies the system registry to enable its automatic execution at every system startup and to hide files with both System and Read-only attributes.

It deletes keys to prevent users from restarting in safe mode.

It modifies several files. It downloads several malicious files, including the following Trend Micro detections:

For additional information about this threat, see:
Solution
Technical Details

Description created: Dec. 11, 2008 8:29:22 PM GMT -0800

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