Sophos

W32/Autorun-CY

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 11 April 2008 12:30:55 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Windows>\setup.exe
<System>\OfficeExt.exe

The following registry entries are created to run OfficeExt.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<System>\OfficeExt.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<System>\OfficeExt.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKCU\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\OfficePlus\settings

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