Title: Womble

Type: Worms

Remove Womble. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(47 / 100)

Womble is a rapidly spreading Internet worm that propagates by e-mail through messages with infected attachments. Once the user opens such an attachment, the parasite secretly installs itself to the system and starts to spread. Womble uses its own mail engine to send e-mail messages to addresses it gathers from the Windows Address Book, local text, program and web files. The worm does not carry any destructive payload. It runs on every Windows startup.

Related files: inet.exe, netupdate.exe, winlog.exe, winlogin.exe, winupdate.exe, yahoo_info.wmf

Womble properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Womble manual removal:

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Kill processes:
inet.exe, netupdate.exe, winlog.exe, winlogin.exe, winupdate.exe

HELP:
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Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ms_net_update
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ms_net_update
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell\explorer.exe %System%\[filename]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit\%System%\userinit.exe %System%\[filename]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinUpdate

HELP:
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Delete files:
inet.exe, netupdate.exe, winlog.exe, winlogin.exe, winupdate.exe, yahoo_info.wmf

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
Exact file location:
netupdate.exe, winlog.exe, winlogin.exe, winupdate.exe - C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32
inet.exe, yahoo_info.wmf - C:\Documents and Settings\[Current User]\Application Data\Microsoft\WinTools\dvd

Information added: 2006-08-30 01:40:57
Information updated: 2006-08-30 01:40:57

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