Sophos

VBS/Agui-A

Aliases
  • Virus.VBS.Agui.a
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 7 February 2008 09:40:16 (GMT)
Last updated 18 February 2008 20:07:52 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

VBS/Agui-A is a worm for the Windows platform.

VBS/Agui-A spreads via removable media.

When first run W32/Agui-A copies itself to:

<System>\OeApi.vbs

and creates the file:

<System>\colli.jpg - image file, can be deleted safely.

The following registry entry is created to run OeApi.vbs on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
System
<System>\OeApi.vbs

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