W32/Agobot-JW

Category: Viruses and Spyware
Type: Win32 worm
Prevalence: Small Number of Reports

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W32/Agobot-JW is a worm which spreads to networks shares with weak passwords. The worm also includes backdoor functions which can be controlled over IRC by a remote attacker.

When first run the worm copies itself to neroasm.exe in the Windows system
folder and adds the registry entries

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NeroAutoStartClient

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
NeroAutoStartClient

The worm removes registry entries and files used by a number of other worms
and terminates a large number of anti-virus and security related processes.

W32/Agobot-JW copies itself to shares with weak passwords as a file named
wrtx.exe.

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