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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 | June 2007 (4.18) |
| Protection available since | 12 July 2006 08:56:47 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 13 April 2007 01:42:27 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/LimpNet-A is a worm for the Windows platform.
When first run W32/LimpNet-A copies itself to:
<Startup>\plus.exe
<Windows>\orawin.exe
W32/LimpNet-A is a worm for the Windows platform.
When first run W32/LimpNet-A copies itself to:
<Startup>\plus.exe
<Windows>\orawin.exe
The following registry entry is created to run orawin.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HP_spooler
<Windows>\orawin.exe
W32/LimpNet-A will attempt to copy itself to floppy disk as save documents_zip.exe and will also create the file log.tmp. W32/LimpNet-A
will also attempt to copy itself to the following drives:
D:\Morales_vs_PAcquiao.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
E:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
F:\Morales.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
G:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
H:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
I:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
J:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
K:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
L:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
M:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
N:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
O:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
P:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
Q:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
R:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
S:\Pacquiao_history.txt<lots of spaces>.exe
W32/LimpNet-A will also attempt to copy itself to network shares by scanning a network in the IP range of 192.168.xxx.xxx (where x represents a number from 0 to 255). W32/LimpNet-A creates the file C:\<Windows>\ora1.tmp which contains the output from the windows ping utility.
