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W32/Waled-B

Aliases
  • Trojan:Win32/Waledac.A
  • W32.Waledac
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Email attachments
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 26 December 2008 15:56:42 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Waled-B is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Waled-B includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP and send itself out using built-in SMTP client.

The worm creates the following registry values to run itself on Windows startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\PromoReg
<path of worm>

The worm sets registry entry under:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RList
 
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MyID


 

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