Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A

Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A is a worm that circulates via Facebook posts by sending messages that incorporate a link that downloads other malware infections onto the corrupted PC. While being installed on the targeted PC, Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A makes system alterations. Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A shows messages from an attacked computer user's Facebook account that he/she does not remember writing. When executed, Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A strives to contact a remote server, from which it receives the list of links that it uses in the messages it distributes on Facebook. Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A then strives to get Facebook authentication cookies from the Internet browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and other by searching the victimized PC user's saved cookies (a cookie is a file on a computer that web browsers use to store information about the websites a PC user visits). Worm:Win32/Dorpiex.A also aims to get Facebook authentication cookies from the processes such as 'facebookmessenger.exe', 'chrome.exe', 'firefox.exe', 'iexplore.exe' and others, if they are running.