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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 4 November 2005 14:35:08 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-AVG is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-AVG spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AVG can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
W32/Rbot-AVG 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-AVG copies itself to <system>\list32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run list32.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
List checker 32 BIT
list32.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
List checker 32 BIT
list32.exe
The following registry entry is set:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
List checker 32 BIT
list32.exe
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