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About Sobig.A
The Sobig worm spreads via email and network shares. The worm turns
an infected computer into a server for outgoing email messages using
its own SMTP engine. The sender’s addresses are spoofed, and the
target addresses are gathered from files with the following extensions
on the infected computer:
.DBX, .EML, .HTM, .HTML, .TXT, .WAB
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The Sobig worm arrives in email with a variety of subject lines, including:
"Re: Movies ", "Re: Sample
","Re: Document ", "Re:
Here is that sample"
And the sender is: big@boss.com.
The attachment is one of the following:
Movie_0074.mpeg.pif, Document003.pif, Untitled1.pif, Sample.pif
The worm also attempts to copy itself to the following folders on all
the open network shares:
\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
How to Remove Sobig.A?
Follow these steps in removing the SoBig.F worm.
1) Disconnect from the Internet or any network you are connected to,
you may also want to disable System Restore on Windows XP or Windows
ME before continuing
2) Terminate the running program
Open the Windows Task Manager by either pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL on Win9x
machines or CTL+Shift+Tab and clicking on the Processes tab on WinNT/2000/XP
machines.
Locate the following program, click on it and End Task or End Process
WINMGM32
3) Remove the Registry entries
Click on Start, Run, Regedit
In the left panel go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current
Version>Run
In the right panel, right-click and delete the following entry:
WindowsMGM
4 ) Search the following files in your computer and delete them:
dwn.dat, sntmls.dat, winmgm32.exe
5) Reboot the computer and run a thorough virus scan using your antivirus
program.
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