W32/Bropia-D

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 worm
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Bropia-D is an MSN Messenger worm for the Windows platform that spreads by sending itself to the MSN Messenger contacts. W32/Bropia-D is a worm for the Windows platform that spreads using MSN Messenger.

Once executed W32/Bropia-D copies itself to the root folder using different filenames and to the Windows system folder with the filename msnus.exe

The worm monitors the status of MSN Messenger and sends a copy of itself to the Messenger contacts.

Also W32/Bropia-D creates the sexy.jpg file which is a JPEG image file in the root folder and drops a winhost.exe file to the Windows system folder.

The image used by the Bropia-D worm
The image used by the Bropia-D worm.

For more information about winhost.exe see W32/Rbot-VH.

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