Sophos

W32/Autorun-DM

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 23 April 2008 04:01:13 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

<System>\kaspersky.exe

and creates the following file:

<System>\winlog.txt - 0 byte file, can be deleted safely.

W32/Autorun-DM also copies itself to removable drives with an autorun.inf file to start itself.

W32/Autorun-DM creates registry trees under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_KSD2SERVICE

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\KSD2Service

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