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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 16 November 2005 21:36:24 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Blaster-L is a worm for the Windows platform.
W32/Blaster-L attempts to spread to computers vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM vulnerability (MS04-012).
W32/Blaster-L includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP, and attempts to download and run more malicious software from a remote website.
When first run W32/Blaster-L copies itself to <System>\huy2.exe.
The following registry entry is created to run huy2.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
myhuy
huy2.exe

