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Thursday, 26 November 2009

Help combat Autorun Viruses

There are Several Viruses that use Autorun.inf files on removal drives that launch a virus file stored in the Recycle bin to infect PCs. They also copy the virus to the c:\windows\ and c:\windows\system32\ folders.

Here is a list of just some of the viruses using this method as identified by Symantec.
  • W32.IRCBot
  • W32.Netsky.gen@mm
  • W32Downadup.B
  • Hacktool.flooder
and variants of each.