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Virus Profile: W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.q

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Virus Profile information details
Risk Assessment: Home Low | Corporate Low
Date Discovered: 5/19/2004
Date Added: 5/12/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: varies
Type: Virus
Subtype: Internet Worm
DAT Required: 4326
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Description

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

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Virus Characteristics

Due to the large volume of members of this virus family, the size of extra.dats required to detect these is very large. AVERT have therefore split the detection into multiple drivers although the behavior of all members is broadly similar.

Please review the W32/Gaobot.worm.gen description.

   
All Users :
AVERT considers this to be a low risk threat.

Detection is already included in the Daily DAT files (beta) .

Modifications made to the system Registry and/or INI files for the purposes of hooking system startup, will be successfully removed if cleaning with the recommended engine and DAT combination (or higher).

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations