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W32/Small-DHR

Aliases
  • Worm.Win32.Small.l
  • WORM_SMALL.DIG
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 27 October 2006 04:22:09 (GMT)
Last updated 17 July 2008 01:05:37 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Small-DHR is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Small-DHR may spread to locally accessible drives.

When first run W32/Small-DHR copies itself to <Windows>\WinDrives.EXE.

The following registry entry is created to run WinDrives.EXE on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
WinDrives
<Windows>\WinDrives.EXE

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