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W32/AutoRun-AZL

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
Protection available since 9 February 2010 05:21:56 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/AutoRun-AZL is a worm for the Windows platform.

When run W32/AutoRun-AZL copies itself to <Documents and Settings>\<User>\keniz.exe and creates the following registry entry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
keniz"
<Documents and Settings>\<User>\keniz.exe

W32/AutoRun-AZL spreads via removable shared drives by copying itself to <Root>\keniz.exe and <Root>\keniz.scr and creating the file <Root>\autorun.inf (detected as Mal/AutoInf-C).

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