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W32/Zaap-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from May 2008 (4.29)
Protection available since 22 March 2008 20:18:03 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

W32/Zaap-A spreads by copying itself to removable drives, with the name protector.exe.

When first run, the worm copies itself to C:\ntkrnl.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to be run automatically.

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ntoskrnl
C:\ntoskrnl.exe

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