Sophos

W32/Dorf-BF

Aliases
  • W32/Nuwar@mm virus
  • Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin.xv
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 20 April 2008 03:33:44 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Dorf-BF is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Dorf-BF copies itself to <Windows>\kavir.exe.

The following registry entry is created to run kavir.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kavir
<Windows>\kavir.exe

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