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W32/AutoRun-CN

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 28 March 2008 12:07:43 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run W32/Autorun-CN copies itself to:

<Common Files>\Services\svchost.exe
<Root>\io.pif

and creates the file <Root>\autorun.inf.

The file autorun.inf is detected as W32/Hoxi-A.

The following registry entry is created to run W32/Autorun-CN on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(default)
<Common Files>\Services\svchost.exe

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