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Mal/Daymay-A

Aliases
  • Spam-Mailbot
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 13 February 2008 15:09:19 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

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More Information

Mal/Daymay-A is a malicious program for the Windows platform.

Detection for members of Mal/Daymay-A is behavior based. It is extremely important that customers report detections of Mal/Daymay-A to Sophos and send a sample for analysis.

The main purpose of Mal/Daymay-A is to participate as a node in a network of bots sending spam.

Members of Mal/Daymay-A set the following Registry entry to modify internet security:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy
\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List
<pathname of the worm executable>
<Current Folder>\<original filename>:*:Enabled:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy
\StandardProfile\IcmpSettings
AllowInboundEchoRequest
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