Sophos

W32/Autorun-W

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Drops more malware
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from February 2008 (4.26)
Protection available since 6 December 2007 05:33:23 (GMT)
Last updated 6 December 2007 07:16:28 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

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

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

<Temp>\9t8gr.sys - detected as Mal/RootKit-A.
<Temp>\co.dll - detected as W32/Autorun-W.
<System>\avpo0.dll - detected as W32/Autorun-W.

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
avpa
<System>\avpo.exe

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