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Details of Virus ButterflyBot.B

All details, description and effects of ButterflyBot.B

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Common names: ButterflyBot.B
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Type: WORM
Size: 134656 Bytes
   

DETECTIONS

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Date first seen: December 21, 2010 at 17:40 PM
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Brief Description

ButterflyBot.B is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.

 

ButterflyBot.B does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.

 

EFFECTS

The main objective of ButterflyBot.B is to spread and affect other computers.

 

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