W32/Winur-D

Discussion in 'malware problems & news' started by Technodrome, May 13, 2003.

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  1. Technodrome

    Technodrome Security Expert

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    W32.HLLW.Purol, W32/Winur.worm.d, WORM_PUROL.A, Worm.P2P.Purol.b

    At the time of writing Sophos has received no reports from users affected by this worm. However, we have issued this advisory following enquiries to our support department from customers.

    At the time of writing Sophos has received just one report of this worm from the wild.

    W32/Winur-D is a worm that exploits peer-to-peer networks such as BearShare, Morpheus, eDonkey2000, Gnucleus, KaZaA, KaZaA Lite and LimeWire and also the file sharing capabilites of the ICQ messaging system.

    When executed the worm copies itself to the Windows folder with the filenames lorupscr.scr, winstart32.exe and hwinfoq.com and sets the following registry entries:

    more: http://www.sophos.com



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