Sophos

W32/Hilin-B

Aliases
  • Virus.Win32.HLLW.VB.o
  • W32/Hilin.worm
  • W32.SillyFDC
  • WORM_SILLYFDC.C
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 6 December 2005 13:56:40 (GMT)
Last updated 5 October 2006 13:50:37 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Hilin-B is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Hilin-B spreads by attempting to copy itself to mapped drives on the system.

When first run W32/Hilin-B copies itself to:

As.exe
<System>\order.exe
<System>\regedit.exe

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\EXPLORER\RUN
OFFICE
<System>\order.exe

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