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W32/Rbot-DCM

Aliases
  • WORM_SPYBOT.JS
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Protection available since 22 April 2006 21:16:31 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

W32/Rbot-DCM is a worm and IRC backdoor for the Windows platform.

W32/Rbot-DCM allows a remote attacked to control an infected computer.

The worm copies itself to the Windows system folder as sbchost.exe and creates the following registry entries:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
svchosts
sbchost.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
svchosts
sbchost.exe

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
svchosts
sbchost.exe

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