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Published Jun 25, 2010 | Updated Sep 15, 2017

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Worm:Win32/Prolaco.gen!E

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: Win-Trojan/Buzus.201728.O (AhnLab) TR/Buzus.czvp (Avira) Trojan.Buzus.GN (BitDefender) Win32/Bredolab.YG (CA) BackDoor.Dosia.2227 (Dr.Web) Win32/Dursg.A (ESET) Trojan.Win32.Buzus.czvp (Kaspersky) W32/Palack.worm (McAfee) W32/Buzus.ADIU (Norman) Trj/Buzus.LF (Panda) Worm.Win32.Prolaco.gen (Sunbelt Software) W32.SillyP2P (Symantec) WORM_SPYBOT.MCS (Trend Micro) Trojan.Buzus.BCRT (VirusBuster)

Summary

Worm:Win32/Prolaco.gen!E is a generic detection of a worm that spreads via e-mail message attachments, removable drives and shared folders of P2P applications. This worm also lowers security settings and disables certain security software and services.

Manual removal is not recommended for this threat. Use Microsoft Security Essentials or another up-to-date scanning and removal tool to detect and remove this threat and other unwanted software from your computer. For more information on Microsoft security products, see http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/computer/default.mspx.

Worm:Win32/Prolaco.gen!E

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