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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 1 June 2005 14:18:33 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AEA is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-AEA 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.
W32/Rbot-AEA can spread to remote network shares protected by weak passwords and to computers vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM vulnerability.
When first run W32/Rbot-AEA copies itself to
The following registry entries are created to run system.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
System Kernal Support
system.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
System Kernal Support
system.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
System Kernal Support
system.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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