W32/Agobot-UG is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Agobot-UG spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including RPC-DCOM (MS04-012) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Agobot-UG can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
<a href= "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-012.mspx" target="_blank">MS04-012</a>
W32/Agobot-UG runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.
When first run W32/Agobot-UG copies itself to <System>\bartent32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run bartent32.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
BarTheme
bartent32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
BarTheme
bartent32.exe