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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 9 November 2005 10:48:49 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Salay-A is a network worm for the Windows platform.
The worm copies itself to the Windows system folder as dosw.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to run each time a user logs on:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windows DOS
"<Windows system folder>\dosw.exe"
The worm spreads through network shares protected by weak passwords.
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