Sophos

W32/AutoRun-BL

Aliases
  • PWS-LegMir.gen.k
  • WORM_AUTORUN.SU
  • Worm.Win32.AutoRun.byx
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 20 February 2008 10:52:54 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/AutoRun-BL is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/AutoRun-BL copies itself to <System>\amvo.exe and creates the following files:

<Temp>\njoi.dll
<Temp>\rqrug0e.sys
<System>\amvo0.dll

These files are also detected as W32/AutoRun-BL.

The following registry entry is created to run amvo.exe on startup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
amva
<System>\amvo.exe

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