Sophos

W32/Autorun-BD

Aliases
  • WORM_AUTORUN.JC
  • VBS.Runauto.C
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 7 February 2008 09:40:16 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Autorun-BD is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Autorun-BD copies itself to:

<Windows>\java\svch0st.exe
<Windows>\pchealth\dllh0st.exe
<Root>\autorun.exe

and creates the file <Root>\autorun.inf

W32/Autorun-BD also copies itself to all removable devices as autorun.exe and creates the file autorun.inf to execute itself when the removable device is connected to another computer.

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