W32/Britney-B

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 worm
Prevalence: No Reports

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W32/Britney-B is a worm that spreads by copying itself to the A: drive as the file Britney.exe. W32/Britney-B is a worm that spreads by copying itself to the A: drive as the file Britney.exe.

In order to be started automatically when Windows boots up W32/Britney-B may copy itself to the file c:\windows\system\user32.exe. and add a Run entry to the Win.ini file pointing to this file.

The worm also adds the registry entry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Run

pointing to this file.

In addition W32/Britney-B creates the text file C:\windows\system\User32.ini.

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