Sophos

W32/Honk-G

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 28 March 2008 07:32:35 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Honk-G is an appending virus for the Windows platform

When first run, W32/Honk-G will copy itself to <System>\winsfc.exe and create the file <Temp>\kb021119.exe. The file kb021119.exe is detected as Troj/Dloadr-IB.

W32/Honk-G will then search for files with the extensions EXE, DLL and SCR and attempt to infect them.

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