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W32/Stration-F

Aliases
  • W32/Stration@MM
  • virus
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 25 August 2006 14:21:44 (GMT)
Last updated 19 May 2007 07:00:08 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Stration-F is a worm for the Windows platform.

When W32/Stration-F is installed the following files are created:

<System>\plussisb.exe
<System>\vjoyterm.dll
<System>\vjoyterm.exe

The files vjoyterm.exe and vjoyterm.dll are also detected as W32/Stration-F. The file plussisb.exe is not inherently malicious.

The following registry entries are created to run code exported by vjoyterm.dll on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\vjoyterm
DllName
<System>\vjoyterm.dll

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\vjoyterm
Startup
WlxStartupEvent

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify\vjoyterm
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