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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Protection available since | 20 April 2005 13:58:15 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 11 May 2005 01:26:10 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AAY is an IRC backdoor Trojan and network worm.
W32/Rbot-AAY may spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and computers vulnerable to common exploits. The worm also opens up a backdoor, allowing unauthorised remote access to infected computers via the IRC network, while running in the background as a service process.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AAY can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
W32/Rbot-AAY can receive commands from a remote intruder to delete network shares, log keypresses, participate in DDoS attacks, scan other computers for vulnerabilities, steal passwords, steal registration keys for computer games, create administrator accounts, terminate firewall and anti-virus processes and capture video from webcameras attached to the computer. W32/Rbot-AAY is an IRC backdoor Trojan and network worm.
W32/Rbot-AAY may spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and computers vulnerable to common exploits. The worm also opens up a backdoor, allowing unauthorised remote access to infected computers via the IRC network, while running in the background as a service process.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AAY can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
W32/Rbot-AAY can receive commands from a remote intruder to delete network shares, log keypresses, participate in DDoS attacks, scan other computers for vulnerabilities, steal passwords, steal registration keys for computer games, create administrator accounts, terminate firewall and anti-virus processes and capture video from webcameras attached to the computer.
W32/Rbot-AAY copies itself to the Windows system folder as "msaol32.exe" and creates the following registry entries in order to run automatically on computer login:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft AOL Instant Messenger
MSAOL32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft AOL Instant Messenger
MSAOL32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Microsoft AOL Instant Messenger
MSAOL32.exe
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