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| Protection available since | 9 June 2004 10:54:45 (GMT) |
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| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Agobot-JQ is a worm that spreads via unpatched machines affected by
RPC/DCOM vulnerabilities.
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up the worm copies itself to
the file lrbz32.exe in the Windows system folder and adds the following registry entries:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
LRBZ Utility 32 = lrbz32.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
LRBZ Utility 32 = lrbz32.exe
W32/Agobot-JQ allows a malicious user to access the machine via IRC channels.
The operations available to such a user include:
aol spamming
messenger spamming
downloading and uploading files
executing arbitrary commands
tcp port redirection
rebooting the machine
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