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W32/Hantaner-A

Aliases
  • Win32.HLLP.Hantaner
  • W32.HLLP.Handy
  • Win32.HLLP.Handy
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Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
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More Information

W32/Hantaner-A is a worm and virus which prepends itself to files found in the download folders of KaZaA and Internet Explorer. By infecting files in the KaZaA download folder W32/Hantaner-A may spread through peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

The location of the folders are obtained by querying the following registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Kazaa\Transfer\DownloadDir
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download Directory

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