Sophos

VBS/Expedit-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
  • Infected files
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 1 February 2008 01:44:19 (GMT)
Last updated 8 February 2008 10:22:57 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

More Information

VBS/Expedit-A is a virus for the Windows platform.

VBS/Expedit-A infects VB Script files it finds on the computer.

VBS/Expedit-A mails itself to all entries in the Outlook address book. The emails have ths subject line:
"here you have"

VBS/Expedit-A creates the file <System>\ChkMgr32.vbs - detected as VBS/Expedit-A.

VBS/Expedit-A contains functionality to perform a denial of service attack.

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