Sophos

W32/AutoRun-DJ

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
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 18 April 2008 06:41:46 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

When run the worm copies itself to <System>\cftmonn.exe and sets the following registry entry to run itself on startup:

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

W32/AutoRun-DJ spreads via removable shared drives by creating the file <Root>\autorun.inf (also detected as W32/AutoRun-DJ) and copying itself to <Root>\cftmonn.exe. This file is designed to run the worm when the removable drive is connected to an uninfected computer.

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