W32/Demotry-B

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

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W32/Demotry-B is a network worm for the Windows platform.

The worm scans network computers on port 445. W32/Demotry-B copies itself
through network shares and mapped logical drives.

In come cases, W32/Demotry-B may insert several spaces between the filename and
the EXE file extension. Other filenames may be used by the worm which are
randomly generated or include non-printable characters. W32/Demotry-B is a network worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Demotry-B copies itself to:

\iexplorer .exe
<Windows>\iexplorer .exe
<System>\iexplorer .exe

The following registry entry is created to run "iexplorer .exe" on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ALG.EXE
"iexplorer .exe"

The worm scans network computers on port 445. W32/Demotry-B copies itself
through network shares and mapped logical drives.

In come cases, W32/Demotry-B may insert several spaces between the filename and
the EXE file extension. Other filenames may be used by the worm which are
randomly generated or include non-printable characters.

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