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Published May 03, 2012 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

Worm:JS/Morph.A

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: JS/Morpheus.A.1 (Avira) JS.Worm.Phremous.A (BitDefender) JS/AutoRun.NAE (ESET) Worm.JS.Morph (Ikarus) Trojan-Downloader.JS.Agent.gqi (Kaspersky) HTA/Autorun.worm.gh (McAfee) Troj/Agent-WCZ (Sophos) JS.Phremous (Symantec)

Summary

Worm:JS/Morph.A is a worm that spreads to all disk drives, including removable drives and network shares, as a file named "M0rPheS.tpl". This worm could download other malware to your infected computer.

To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may be installed on your computer, run a full-system scan with an appropriate, up-to-date, security solution. The following Microsoft products detect and remove this threat:

For more information on antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/.

Recovering from recurring infections on a network

The following additional steps may need to be taken to completely remove this threat from an infected network, and to stop infections from recurring from this and other similar types of network-spreading malware:

  1. Ensure that an antivirus product is installed on ALL computers connected to the network that can access or host shares.
  2. Ensure that all available network shares are scanned with an up-to-date antivirus product.
  3. Restrict permissions as appropriate for network shares on your network. For more information on simple access control, please see: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/bb456977.aspx.
  4. Remove any unnecessary network shares or mapped drives.

Note: Additionally it may be necessary to temporarily change the permission on network shares to read-only until the disinfection process is complete.

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