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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | February 2008 (4.26) |
| Protection available since | 5 December 2007 23:39:11 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Please follow the instructions for removing Trojans.
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Troj/IRCBot-ZL is a Trojan for the Windows platform.
Troj/IRCBot-ZL 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-ZL copies itself to <System>\ne.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run ne.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(default)
ne.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
(default)
ne.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
(default)
ne.exe
