Sophos

VBS/Roor-C

Aliases
  • Virus.VBS.Redlof.n
  • VBS_SORACI.B
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Network shares
  • Infected files
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from September 2005 (3.97)
Protection available since 13 July 2005 13:12:17 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

More Information

VBS/Roor-C is a virus that may infect HTML or text files.

VBS/Roor-C infects files with file extension HTM, HTML or HTT.

VBS/Roor-C drops the virus as FOLDER.HTT and an INI file DESKTOP.INI in various locations, including the root folder and the 'My Documents' folder. The virus may also spread to the root folder of other drives.

VBS/Roor-C makes the following changes to the system registry:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Start Page
about:error

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs
error
http://<URL at geocities>

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
NoFolderOptions
1

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Hidden
0

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
ClassicShell
0

The virus deletes the following registry entry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ExtShellViews
(5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262)

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