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Troj/Sdbot-LI

Aliases
  • IRCbot.en.
  • randbot.worm.gen.b
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Protection available since 12 May 2004 15:11:21 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

Troj/Sdbot-LI is a member of the Troj/Sdbot family of backdoor Trojans.

Troj/Sdbot-LI allows a malicious user remote access to an infected computer
through IRC channels.

In order to run automatically when Windows starts up Troj/Sdbot-LI copies itself to the file svchoct.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following
registry entry:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Distributed Transaction
Coordinator System=svchoct.exe

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