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W32/Vambul-A

Aliases
  • Virus.Win32.VB.ki
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Peer-to-peer
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from June 2008 (4.30)
Protection available since 30 April 2008 19:03:05 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Vambul-A is a worm for the Windows platform.

When W32/Vambul-A is installed the following files are created:

<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\Paraysutki_VM_Community
<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\csrss.exe
<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\lsass.exe
<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\services.exe
<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\smss.exe
<System>\~A~m~B~u~R~a~D~u~L~\winlogon.exe

The files csrss.exe, lsass.exe, Paraysutki_VM_Community, services.exe, smss.exe and winlogon.exe are also detected as W32/Vambul-A.

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