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W32/SillyFDC-H

Aliases
  • Virus.Win32.Small.r
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 3 January 2007 06:30:45 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/SillyFDC-H is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run, the worm copies itself to <System>\svchost.exe.

W32/SillyFDC-H also creates the following files in logical drives found on the infected computer.

<Recycled>\info.exe - Copy of itself.
autorun.inf - to execute the above file.

The following registry entry is changed to run W32/SillyFDC-H on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Userinit
userinit.exe,<System>\svchost.exe

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