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VIRUS \ Spyware ALERTS - October 31, 2008

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 30, 2008 3:00PM PDT

W32/Yahlov-A

Aliases W32/Yahlover.worm.gen.f virus
TROJ_MALBEHV.AB
Trojan.Win32.Autoit.dq
W32.SillyFDC

Category Viruses and Spyware

Type Worm

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

W32/Yahlov-A speads by copying itself to network shares and removable drives.

W32/Yahlov-A copies itself to the root folder of removeable drives with a randomly generated filename and creates an autorun.inf file in the root folder of the drive in an attempt to run the copy when the drive is loaded. Both the copy and the autorun.inf file will have the system, hidden and read-only attributes set.

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32yahlova.html?_log_from=rss

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Troj/Boaxxe-F

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 31, 2008 9:33AM PDT

Aliases Trojan.Win32.BHO.hfx
TROJ_BHO.KB
Boaxxe.dll trojan
Trojan:Win32/Boaxxe.B
TROJ_DROPPER.GR

Category Viruses and Spyware

Type Trojan

Troj/Boaxxe-F drops the file <system>/asdn.dll. The dropped file is also detected as Troj/Boaxxe-F.

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/trojboaxxef.html?_log_from=rss

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Mal/EncPk-FT

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 31, 2008 9:34AM PDT

Category Viruses and Spyware

Type Malicious Behavior

Affected operating systems Windows

http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/malencpkft.html?_log_from=rss

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