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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 16 April 2008 22:33:52 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-GWV intercepts network traffic on the infected computer.
When first run W32/Rbot-GWV copies itself to <System>\svehost.exe and creates the following files:
<System>\drivers\npf.sys - clean file, part of WinPcap library; can be safely deleted
<System>\packet.dll - clean file, part of WinPcap library; can be safely deleted
<System>\wpcap.dll - clean file, part of WinPcap library; can be safely deleted
The file npf.sys is registered as a new system driver service named "NPF" with a display name of "Netgroup Packet Filter".
The following registry entries are created:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
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svehost.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
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svehost.exe
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NPF
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
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svehost.exe
