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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 3 June 2005 19:44:48 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AEQ is a member of the W32/Rbot family of network worms. The worm can spread to computers vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM and Workstation Service exploits. The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AEQ can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
When first run W32/Rbot-AEQ copies itself to <Windows system folder>\msixec32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run msixec32.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Internet Executor 32
MSIXEC32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MS Internet Executor 32
MSIXEC32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
MS Internet Executor 32
MSIXEC32.exe
W32/Rbot-AEQ can be intructed to:
Act as an HTTP or FTP server
Scan for remote computers to spread to
Upload, download, and execute files
Create, delete, start, and stop services
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