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| How it spreads |
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|---|---|
| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | February 2008 (4.26) |
| Protection available since | 15 December 2007 05:30:20 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Autorun-AB is a worm for the Windows platform.
W32/Autorun-AB creates an autorun.inf file and copies itself as ntdeIect.com on to removable drives. The file autorun.inf is proactively detected as Mal/AutoInf-A.
When first run W32/Autorun-AB copies itself to <System>\kavo.exe and creates the following files:
<Temp>\q2heu0.sys - detected as Mal/Rootkit-A
<Temp>\rcfgto.dll - detected as W32/Autorun-AB
<System>\kavo0.dll - detected as Troj/Lineag-Gen
The following registry entry is created to run kavo.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
kava
<System>\kavo.exe
