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W32/Autorun-AV

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 25 January 2008 06:27:45 (GMT)
Last updated 2 March 2009 06:23:35 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Autorun-AV is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Autorun-AV contains functionality to spread via removable storage devices.

When first run W32/Autorun-AV copies itself to <System>\amvo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\fq9.dll
<Temp>\w2e.sys
<System>\amvo0.dll

The file amvo0.dll is detected as Mal/EncPk-CE and the file w2e.sys is detected as Mal/RootKit-A.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
amva
<System>\amvo.exe

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