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Troj/IRCbot-ACF

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 8 July 2008 18:15:24 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/IRCbot-ACF 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 Troj/IRCbot-ACF copies itself to <System>\bootcli.exe.

The process bootcli.exe may be hidden.

The following registry entry is created to run bootcli.exe on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Boot Client
bootcli.exe

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