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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 6 September 2005 00:39:09 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 7 October 2005 12:16:06 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AMW is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-AMW spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilites, including WKS (MS03-049), PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
W32/Rbot-AMW 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.
When first run W32/Rbot-AMW copies itself to <System>\google.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run google.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
google
google.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
google
google.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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