Virusinformationen - Details zuLovgate.CN

Lovgate.CN is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.

It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:

• It terminates processes corresponding to several security tools, such as antivirus programs and firewalls, to prevent detection.

Lovgate.CN uses the following propagation or distribution methods:

• Exploiting vulnerabilities with the intervention of the user: exploiting vulnerabilities in file formats or applications. To exploit them successfully it needs the intervention of the user: opening files, viewing malicious web pages, reading emails, etc.
• Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing programs: it makes copies of itself with enticing names in shared folders belonging to these programs. Other users of this type of networks then voluntarily download and run the infected files.
• Instant messaging: it sends links pointing to a copy of itself to all users included in the infected user's contacts list.
• Computer networks (mapped drives): it creates copies of itself in mapped drives.