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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 10 April 2006 03:28:16 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Mytob-HE is a mass-mailing worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
When run the worm attempts to copy itself to <System>\0.exe as well as to various P2P shared folders using various filenames.
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up W32/Mytob-HE creates the following registry entry:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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<System>\0.exe
W32/Mytob-HE will harvest email addresses from the infected computer and then mail itself to those addresses as an attachment.
W32/Mytob-HE also attempts to terminate various anti-virus and security related applications and processes.
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