Sophos

W32/Ickie-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Removable storage devices
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from October 2007 (4.22)
Protection available since 17 August 2007 15:28:39 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Ickie-A is a worm for the Windows platform.

W32/Ickie-A spreads by copying itself to removable drives.

When first run, W32/Ickie-A copies itself to <Windows>\chiCkie.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to be run automatically:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
chiCkie
<Windows>\chiCkie.exe

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