Email-Worm:W32/Runouce

Summary

A worm that spreads via e-mail, usually in infected executable e-mail file attachments.

Disinfection & Removal

Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.

For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.

Technical Details

Email-Worm:W32/Runouce is distributed in infectious executable e-mail attachments.

Installation

When run it copies itself to the System Directory as Runouce.exe and modifies Windows Registry so that the copy in the direcorty is run each time Windows starts.

Propagation

Searches for HTML files in the users' hard drive and modifies them to launch the file README.EML, created in the same directory where the HTML is found.

To propagate itself, Runouce creates e-mail messages with the following format:

Subject: [text, followed by "is comming!"]
 From: [The sender address pretends to be one from yahoo.com]

 

The worm spreads itself as an attachment named pp.exe with MIME type audio/x-wav.

It uses a static server to send messages through its own SMTP engine.

Variant:Runouce.B

Runouce is an internet worm. When run it copies itself to the System Directory as Runouce.exe and modifies windows registry so it is run each time windows starts. Searches for HTML files in the users' hard drive and modifies them to launch the file README.EML, created in the same directory where the HTML is found. Sends e-mail with the following format:

Subject:is comming!
From:[The sender address pretends to be one from yahoo.com]

The worm spreads itself as an attachment named pp.exe with MIME type audio/x-wav. It uses a static server to send messages through its own SMTP engine.

Detection

Detection in F-Secure Anti-Virus was published on July 31st, 2002:

Detection Type: PC
Database: 2002-07-31_01