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P2Pworm.NQ | |
Threat Level Damage Distribution |
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| Common name: | P2Pworm.NQ |
| Technical name: | W32/P2Pworm.NQ.worm |
| Threat level: | Medium |
| Type: | Worm |
| Effects: |
It spreads and affects other computers.
It spreads
, across the Internet, through P2P programs, via mapped drives.
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| Affected platforms:
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Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 |
| First detected on: | Aug. 5, 2010 |
| Detection updated on: | Aug. 5, 2010 |
| Statistics | No |
Brief Description | |
P2Pworm.NQ is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files. P2Pworm.NQ 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.
- 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.
- Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
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