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W32/Yodo-C

Aliases
  • W32/Yodo.c@MM
  • Win32/Yodo.C
  • worm
  • WORM_YODIDOO.A
  • P2P-Worm.Win32.VB.aj
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Peer-to-peer
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from August 2007 (4.20)
Protection available since 11 July 2007 05:22:04 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

W32/Yodo-C is a worm for the Windows platform.

When first run W32/Yodo-C copies itself to:

<Program Files>\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder\Keygen.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder\Windows XP.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder\halflife.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA Lite\My Shared Folder\hentai game.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA\My Shared Folder\Keygen.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA\My Shared Folder\Windows XP.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA\My Shared Folder\halflife.exe
<Program Files>\KaZaA\My Shared Folder\hentai game.exe
<System>\updater.exe

and may display such messages as:

"Greetings from the underground to those in the normal world "
"Hello Again Dolly! This time we are back for Round 2. Hope your Ready ^_^"

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

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Windowz Update V2.0
updater.exe

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