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Esfury.J | |
Threat Level Damage Distribution |
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| Common name: | Esfury.J |
| Technical name: | W32/Esfury.J |
| Threat level: | Medium |
| Type: | Virus |
| Effects: |
It carries out damaging actions on the affected computer.
It spreads
, via mapped drives, through shared network resources.
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| Affected platforms:
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Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 |
| First detected on: | Sept. 18, 2010 |
| Detection updated on: | Sept. 18, 2010 |
| Statistics | No |
Brief Description | |
Esfury.J is a virus that spreads to other computers by copying its code to other files or programs. Esfury.J 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.
- Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.
- Computer networks (shared resources): it creates copies of itself in shared network resources to which it has access.
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