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W32/Looked-AI

Aliases
  • Worm.Win32.Viking.an
  • Win32/Viking.AZ
  • PE_LOOKED.GP
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
  • Infected files
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 16 October 2006 22:42:53 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Looked-AI is a virus for the Windows platform.

W32/Looked-AI includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

W32/Looked-AI also may spread through available network shares W32/Looked-AI is a virus for the Windows platform.

W32/Looked-AI includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.

W32/Looked-AI also may spread through available network shares.

Upon execution W32/Looked-AI creates the following files:

<Windows>\Dll.dll
<Windows>\Logo1_.exe
<Windows>\rundl132.exe

where Logo1_.exe and rundl132.exe are copies of the virus host, and Dll.dll is a downloading component of the virus.

These files are also detected as W32/Looked-AI.

The following registry entry is created to run rundl132.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
load
<Windows>\rundl132.exe

Registry entries are created under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Soft\DownloadWWW\

The virus infects PE EXE files found on the infected computer.

Many files with the name "_desktop.ini" are created, in various folders on the infected computer. These files are harmless text files.

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