VBS/Joint-A
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| Ranking: | 872 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 73,357 |
| First Seen: | December 7, 2011 |
| Last Seen: | September 20, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
VBS/Joint-A is a malware infection written in Visual Basic. The latest variants of VBS/Joint-A were detected in summer of 2011. VBS/Joint-A is a dangerous malware infection that should be dealt with immediately. This kind of infection is usually severe and can have grave consequences on the infected computer system. VBS/Joint-A was first released in October of 2008 and, while Microsoft has released several updates in order to protect users from this infection, variants continue to appear in order to continue attacking computer systems from all around the world.
Symptoms and Malicious Actions of VBS/Joint-A
The main purpose of VBS/Joint-A is to spread from one computer to another. VBS/Joint-A does this by copying itself to any hard drives that VBS/Joint-A detects, any external memory devices and shared files on the infected computer's network. VBS/Joint-A will usually be associated with another malware infection (usually a backdoor Trojan) which takes advantage of VBS/Joint-A's capacity to spread from one computer to the next in order to deliver its harmful payload. One of the most dangerous aspects of VBS/Joint-A is that a computer system that is infected with this malware threat will often display no signs of a malware infection. Because of this, the first sign of an infection may be a warning from your anti-malware program. This makes maintaining your security software fully updated extremely important.
Elements of a VBS/Joint-A Worm Infection
VBS/Joint-A will usually involve four components with four different extensions: INF, BAT, REG, and VBS. Autorun.inf, which is the autorun configuration data file. This file is responsible for executing VBS/Joint-A automatically. This means that simply plugging in an infected external memory device is enough to infect an entire computer system. The file with the BAT extension is the batch script for this malware threat, and the file with the REG extension is the registry data import file. The worm itself is contained in the VBS extension file. The actual file names vary from one version of VBS/Joint-A to another. VBS/Joint-A makes changes to the Windows Registry so that VBS/Joint-A will run the batch script in the BAT file. This will prevent Windows from loading any security software and blocks certain types of files. VBS/Joint-A will always attempt to copy itself to all drives detected on the infected computer.
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