Mal/Palevo-A

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:09 Apr 2010 02:20:05 (GMT)
Type: Malicious behavior Last Updated:18 Feb 2011 02:57:34 (GMT)
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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Summary

Mal/Palevo-A is a member of the Palevo family of malware.

Mal/Palevo-A typically copies itself to removable drives and network shares, also dropping the file autorun.inf to run this copy automatically.

Mal/Palevo-A often sets a registry entry at the following location to run itself automatically on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Taskman

 

 

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