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Areses.BC | |
Threat Level Damage Distribution |
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Common name: | Areses.BC |
Technical name: | W32/Areses.BC.worm |
Threat level: | Medium |
Type: | Worm |
Effects: |
It spreads and affects other computers.
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Affected platforms:
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Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 |
First detected on: | Sept. 6, 2006 |
Detection updated on: | Sept. 6, 2006 |
Statistics | No |
Brief Description | |
Areses.BC is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files. It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy:
. It sends the gathered information to a remote user by any available means: email, FTP, etc. It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user: - It injects itself in running processes.
Areses.BC uses the following propagation or distribution methods: - Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
- Via Internet, exploiting remote vulnerabilities: attacking random IP addresses, in which it tries to insert a copy of itself by exploiting one or more vulnerabilities.
- Email: sending emails that include a copy of itself as an attachment. The computer is infected when the attachment is run.
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