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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 12 November 2008 04:05:02 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/AutoRun-OE is a worm for the Windows platform.
When run W32/AutoRun-OE copies itself to <Program Files>\Microsoft Common\svchost.exe and sets the following registry entries:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe
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<Program Files>\Microsoft Common\svchost.exe
W32/AutoRun-OE also creates the file <System>\ntdll.dll (detected as W32/AutoRun-OE).
W32/AutoRun-OE spreads via removable shared drives by copying itself as <Root>\system.exe and creating the file <Root>\autorun.inf (detected as W32/Autorun-IN).
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