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Areses.CO | |
Threat Level Damage Distribution |
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| Common name: | Areses.CO |
| Technical name: | W32/Areses.CO.worm |
| Threat level: | Medium |
| Type: | Worm |
| Effects: |
It spreads and affects other computers.
It sends the information it has captured to a remote user.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user.
It spreads
, via email, through P2P programs.
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| Affected platforms:
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Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 |
| First detected on: | Aug. 28, 2007 |
| Detection updated on: | Aug. 28, 2007 |
| Statistics | No |
Brief Description | |
Areses.CO 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.CO 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.
- Email: sending emails that include a copy of itself as an attachment. The computer is infected when the attachment is run.
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs: it makes copies of itself with enticing names in shared folders belonging to these programs. Other users of this type of networks then voluntarily download and run the infected files.
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