Sophos

W32/Parite-B

Aliases
  • W32.Pinfi
  • W32/Pate-B
  • PE_PARITE.A
  • W32/Pate.b
  • W95/Parite.B
  • Win32.Parite.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Once W32/Parite-B has been executed, it will remain in memory, infecting every PE and SCR file on every drive and network share. Once W32/Parite-B has been executed, it will remain in memory, infecting every PE and SCR file on every drive and network share.

The main viral code will be dropped to a randomly named TMP file in the Windows temp directory. The file is 172Kb in size.

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