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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 26 December 2008 15:56:42 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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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

