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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 11 October 2005 18:53:51 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-ARA is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-ARA spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including RPC-DCOM (MS04-012).
W32/Rbot-ARA 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-ARA copies itself to <System>\google.pif.
The following registry entries are created to run google.pif on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
google Intrenet Explorer
google.pif
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
google Intrenet Explorer
google.pif
The following registry entry is set:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
google Intrenet Explorer
google.pif
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