Worm.NetSky.T
Posted: May 17, 2007
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 17 |
First Seen: | July 24, 2009 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Worm.NetSky.T is a malicious mass-mailing worm that is designed to spread as an email attachment. Once it is installed, Worm.NetSky.T will set in Windows Registry to be able to launch every time you load your computer. Worm.NetSky.T has two processes and when one process is stopped, the other gets loaded in order to continue its malicious work; therefore it difficult to get rid of this parasite. Worm.NetSky.T may search and send its copies to all addresses found onto your computer. Moreover, Worm.NetSky.T may open up a backdoor on your machine, and this places any financial or banking information stored on your computer in severe jeopardy and represents a serious security risk.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:approved_file7.pif
File name: approved_file7.pifSize: 59.39 KB (59392 bytes)
MD5: 290fb527a36be83055de09e9aebc01cd
Detection count: 21
Mime Type: unknown/pif
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
EasyAV.exe, e-mail3.pif, secound_document4.pif
File name: EasyAV.exe, e-mail3.pif, secound_document4.pifSize: 38.91 KB (38912 bytes)
MD5: f1eac29a09279d51c81585ae47c5255d
Detection count: 8
Mime Type: unknown/pif
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
I have worm.win32.netsky on my computer. I can use my e-mail, internet ok but I cannot start my computer in safe mode to make the corrections I've downloaded from your site. Is it ok to start it with last known good configuration and then remove this pest?
Not sure what to do but reading this helped a little. wish i had more knowledge of what i was doing. know how to use the computer just not how to fix them. This virus has got in to my desk top computer lucky for me i have the laptop. but difficult to down load any thing that will help me.