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| How it spreads |
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|---|---|
| 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 |
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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
