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It carries out damaging actions on the affected computer.
It does not spread automatically using its own means.
|Detection updated on:||July 10, 2008|
Urkel.Boot is a virus that spreads to other computers by copying its code to other files or programs.
Urkel.Boot 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.
- File infection: it infects different types of files, which are then distributed through any of the usual means: floppy disks, email messages with attachments, Internet download, files transferred via FTP, IRC channels, P2P file sharing networks, etc.
Urkel.Boot uses the following infection strategies:
- Stealth: when the virus is memory resident, it hides the modifications made to the boot sectors or files it has infected. These modifications are: changes in size, date, attributes, etc.