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W32/AutoRun-LH

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 11 October 2008 06:50:14 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

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

When first run W32/AutoRun-LH copies itself to:

<Root>\rejoice46.exe
<System>\_rejoice46.exe
<System>\rejoice46.exe

and creates the following files:

<Root>\AutoRun.inf - detected as W32/AutoRun-LH
<System>\SgotoDel.bat - can be safely removed

The file rejoice46.exe is registered as a new system driver service named "Windows_rejoice46", with a display name of "Windows_rejoice46" and a startup type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup. Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Windows_rejoice46

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