Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This threat can spread using removable drives, such as USB flash drives. When you connect the drive to your PC, the worm is run automatically.

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Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This threat is a worm, which means it spreads from PC to PC. This particular worm spreads by copying itself to mapped network or removable drives. If someone tries to open that drive from another PC, their PC will be infected.

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Worm:Win32/Autorun.QF is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new machines. Commonly, worms may spread directly by copying themselves to removable or network drives, or by attempting to exploit particular vulnerabilities on targeted machines. Worms also often attempt to spread via platforms that require user interaction in order to run. They may send themselves as an attachment to an email or an instant message, or send a link to a copy of themselves in the body of a message. In these cases the message needs to be convincing enough to encourage the victim to click on the link or attachment and run or download a copy of the worm.

VirTool:INF/Autorun.gen!J is a generic detection for the "autorun.inf" configuration data files dropped by various worms, which perform automated actions associated with removable media drives.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.AAW is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.ZJ is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.AEU is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.ADB is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.gen!AED is the worm component of Backdoor:Win32/Poison.E. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

In the wild, Worm:Win32/Autorun.gen!AED has been observed to be packaged with two components: a clean application (usually a program called "Resource Hacker") and Backdoor:Win32/Poison.E. The package containing all three components is usually created by a tool detected as Virtool:Win32/Obfuscator.C.

Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.

This is a detection for a file, called autorun.inf, that can be used by worms when they spread to local, network, or removable drives.

The file has instructions to launch the malware automatically when the removable drive is connected to a PC with the Autorun feature turned on.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.PL is a worm that spreads by dropping copies of itself onto removable drives. It also modifies the system file "explorer.exe".

Windows Defender detects and removes this threat.

This is a file, named autorun.inf, that worms create when they copy themselves to a local, network, or removable drive.

See the VirTool:INF/Autorun.gen description for more information.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.ACS is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.XR is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Commonly, worms may spread directly by copying themselves to removable or network drives, or by attempting to exploit particular vulnerabilities on targeted computers. Worms also often attempt to spread via platforms that require user interaction in order to run. They may send themselves as an attachment to an email or an instant message, or send a link to a copy of themselves in the body of a message. In these cases the message needs to be convincing enough to encourage the victim to click on the link or attachment and run or download a copy of the worm.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.RT is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Commonly, worms may spread directly by copying themselves to removable or network drives, or by attempting to exploit particular vulnerabilities on targeted computers. Worms also often attempt to spread via platforms that require user interaction in order to run. They may send themselves as an attachment to an email or an instant message, or send a link to a copy of themselves in the body of a message. In these cases the message needs to be convincing enough to encourage the victim to click on the link or attachment and run or download a copy of the worm.

Worm:VBS/Autorun.BG is a worm that spreads via fixed, removable and network drives, and RAM disks. It changes the user’s Internet Explorer start page, and attempts to enable Autorun functionality on all drives of the computer. In certain situations it may also attempt to shut down the computer.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.FH is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.VV is a worm - a self-propagating program that can spread itself from one computer to another. Worms may spread themselves via a variety of different channels in order to compromise new computers. Variants of Worm:Win32/Autorun usually spread using methods that include, but may not be limited to, copying themselves to removable or network drives, and placing an autorun.inf file in the root directory of each affected drive in an attempt to ensure that the worm is run when the removable drive is attached, or the network drive is visited from a remote system supporting the Autorun feature.

Worm:Win32/Autorun.VV!inf is a detection for an Autorun configuration file named "autorun.inf" that attempts to run Worm:Win32/Autorun.VV.