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W32/Acid-F

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email messages
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 21 March 2007 11:31:58 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Acid-F is an email-worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Acid-F copies itself to:

<CurrentFolder>\SysManage.exe
<System>\lgm.exe

and creates the file <Current Folder>\outputt.txt.

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
lgm
<System>\lgm.exe

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