Effects: Its main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible by making copies of itself in the mapped and removable drives. It adds the message Hacked by and a filename to the Internet Explorer windows title.
Affected platforms: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95/3.X
First detected on: Oct. 25, 2007
Detection updated on: Oct. 25, 2007
In circulation? No
Brief Description
FlashJumper.Q is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible by making copies of itself in the mapped and removable drives.
Additionally, it creates an AUTORUN.INF file in all the system drives where it has been copied, in order to be run whenever any of them is accessed.
Visible Symptoms
FlashJumper.Q is easy to recognize, as it adds the message Hacked by and a filename to the Internet Explorer window title. The filename belongs to the name of the file with which the worm is copied.