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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 18 October 2005 13:21:55 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 20 October 2005 03:41:13 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-ASG is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-ASG 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-ASG copies itself to <System>\msgsm32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run msgsm32.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
msgsm32
msgsm32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
msgsm32
msgsm32.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
msgsm32
msgsm32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
EnableDCOM
N
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
restrictanonymous
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