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W32/Aidid-A

Mar 15, 2004 3:38AM PST

Aliases
WORM_AIDID.A

Type
Win32 executable file virus

Description
W32/Aidid-A is an overwriting virus that overwrites all files on the floppy drive. The extension .EXE will be added to all overwritten files.
W32/Aidid-A copies itself to the windows system folder as sysmon32.exe and creates the following registry entry in order to run on system restart:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SystemMonitor


Read more: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32aidida.html

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