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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 18 August 2005 20:39:22 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Codbot-V is a network worm and backdoor Trojan which allows a remote
intruder to gain access and control over the computer.
W32/Codbot-V can spread to weakly protected Microsoft SQL servers, and computers
vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM exploit.
The patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Codbot-V can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
When first run W32/Codbot-V copies itself to <System>\javascript.exe.
The file javascript.exe is registered as a new system driver service named
"Javascript", with a display name of "Enables Javascript Support" and a startup
type of automatic, so that it is started automatically during system startup.
Registry entries are created under:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Javascript\
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