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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 14 December 2005 14:24:53 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 7 January 2006 00:21:33 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-BCA is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-BCA 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.
W32/Rbot-BCA spreads by using AOL Instant Messenger, via network shares and SQL servers with weak passwords.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-BCA can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
LSASS (MS04-011)
RPC-DCOM (MS04-012)
WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812)
PNP (MS05-039)
ASN.1 (MS04-007)
When first run W32/Rbot-BCA copies itself to <System>\service.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run service.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
AdobeReaderPro
service.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
AdobeReaderPro
service.exe
The following registry entry is set:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
AdobeReaderPro
service.exe
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